Pumking Bottling

Tonight we bottled our Pumking clone and got a little glimpse of how the taste is progressing with all the stuff we added in the secondary. Start to finish, the whole bottling only took an hour which is great. This is our first time bottling with bombers too - from our two gallon batch we ended up with five 22oz bombers and 11 regular bottles.

In order to get a final gravity reading, we siphoned a little bit of the beer off to a cup before it hit the bottling bucket. That way the gravity reading isn't affected by the priming sugar. Reading came out to 1.015, which means we didn't get any extra points during secondary fermentation.

The taste was pretty good so far. It's not quite as strong as Southern Tier Pumking, which may get back to getting less malt into the wort than we intended. But, I think you can actually tell that it's Pumking we were shooting for. If the same holds true for the final beer, we'll consider it a success.

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