Tumbler Bottling

After our failed El Jefe tasting and the dunkel racking snafu, it was great to have a smooth and successful home brew night with bottling our Tumbler clone.

As part of troubleshooting the lack of carbonation in the hefeweizen, we went with corn sugar this time. In order to mix the priming sugar with the beer, we put the priming sugar solution into a bottling bucket, then siphoned the beer from the secondary into the bucket. This also made the bottling itself easier than using the siphon straight from the secondary. We ended up with 28 bottles of beer, but we probably could have gotten 29 or 30. I wonder if the 3-gallon carboy actually holds a bit more than 3-gallons.

The final gravity ended up at 1.016, which should put the ABV at about 5.8%. The taste was still nicely smokey and chocolaty. I'm not sure it's much of a clone of Tumbler, but as long as the final beer tastes good then that's all that matters. Can't wait to taste it with the carbonation! We also still need a fun name for it, but I'm sure Amy is working on it.

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