Bug Juice Tasting

It's been just over two weeks since we bottled our "Bug Juice" dunkelweizen. Having our brewing buddies over again was the perfect excuse to crack open a couple bottles and see how they're doing. As soon as we broke the seal on the bottle cap, it was a good sign - that characteristic psshhh of a carbonated bottle. Then with the pour, plenty of foamy head! We finally produced a carbonated beer!

We've had very little carbonation in our El Jefe or Tumbler Clone after a month or more of bottle conditioning, and after just two weeks we have great carbonation with Bug Juice. The best theory we can come up with so far is that the krausen hadn't fallen with the first two beers when we racked, but it had with Bug Juice. Maybe with the krausen not fallen yet, we lost a lot of yeast when we racked to the secondary with those first two beers. Luckily the krausen had fallen with the pumking clone, so there's hope we'll get good carbonation from that beer too.

As for the taste - it was a little on the sweet side and maybe slightly acidic. Not great, but certainly drinkable. I'm thinking another week or two in the bottle might round out some of the rough edges. We're still making steps in the right direction with our home brewing though, and hopefully we have better and better beers ahead of us.

Oh, and the Bug Juice name? Well, if you don't know, you'll just have to poke around the blog until you figure it out! :-)

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