Wednesday, June 1, 2011

The Ninja (update)

After a long weekend of being on the go, I originally planned to transfer The Ninja into secondary on Monday.  Unfortunately, my energy level was at about 1% of max, and I had nothing left.  I passed out on the couch and there was NO way I was going to get up to deal with beer.  So last night, the time had arrived.  It had been a hair over 3 weeks and this thing was still making alcohol.  After getting things sanitized and the transfer started, I pulled a sample for a taste and a hydrometer reading.  I can't remember if I had mentioned in my last entry about it, but the OG was just about 1.097 (12.9% potential alcohol), and I was eager to see where I was at after 3 weeks of CO2 being pumped out.  So after filling the tube, I dropped the saccharometer/hydrometer in and damn, that thing sunk like a rock; unlike the OG (where it floated like crazy).  Currently, it read 1.021 and 2.25%, which puts this bad boy at 10.65% ABV.  I won't go into flavor and such since it's so young, but I did drop in another bit of ginger to try to get a touch more of that flavor on board.  More to come...


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