Well, it's been exactly 9 days since I made the stout and it was time to get it into secondary. The only problem with that is I didn't have a carboy to put it in, so in an effort to leave the Oktoberfest alone and let it continue to lager, I needed to get the pumpkin ale into its keg. What's cool with that is Thursday is FINALLY the day I install the necessary parts for my kegerator! So anyway, the pumpkin ale turned out pretty good actually (it's yet to be carbonated) so I'll leave my review for later. Actually, I'll have some friends be the taste testers. Ah, and the ABV is 5.75%.
Back to the stout. So I got it moved over to the freshly opened up carboy and added the bourbon soaked oak chips. The current gravity is 1.029, which is higher than I had originally estimated it would be at this point, so I might have let the temp get too low and I probably should have agitated the wort a bit more to keep the yeast active. Either way, it's converted a good portion of the sugars to alcohol, and the taste was pretty nice. It'll sit for the next 2 to 3 weeks with the oak and bourbon and into a keg it'll go.
Salud!
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