While at a friend's house for a celebration, we took out our bottles of IPA for everyone to try. Everyone opened them up and tried them (I put mine in a glass because I can be a bit of a snob at times). We had previously apologized to everyone for our IPA as we expected it to be bad the first time around, but much to our surprise everyone liked it.
The beer was not too hoppy, but as the kit we had used previously from the Brooklyn Brewing Company did not have a clarifier tablet so the beer came out unfiltered. I am not aware if this is always how you unfilter a beer or whether most brewing companies use a different process and it's something Kristi and I will need to look into.
Next up we're looking into making an Irish Red in preparation for St. Patrick's Day in our 5 gal fermenter, but Kristi wanted to use the 1 gal carboy to ferment a Belgian with her own recipe. Now, the Belgian is actually using a kit that was given to her for her birthday, but she is planning on adding other ingredients to use it to experiment with diverging from the norm. We'll probably be starting this on Sunday, but next Tuesday we start bottling our Kolsch and may be able to brew our Irish Red that very night as well.
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