Congrats! Great video... I would love to have taken that path for a career.
Thanks! I've been jumping through hoops to get a chance to try out, it's good to see that hard work pay off.
And I think
your career path is the envy of everyone in the club
An update on this beer:
I racked it out of primary today after 3 weeks. I racked it into a keg for bulk aging. I also took a hydrometer sample which read 1.020.
With an adjusted OG of 1.105, that gives me 11.1% ABV (OG adjusted from 1.092 b/c 1.5lb Dextrose was added after 3 days of fermentation.)
My beer tasting skills aren't the best, but here goes nothing.
Look: It's got a nice dark brown, almost maroon colour. I would compare it to cherry wood stain.
Aroma: I like the citrus hop aroma I'm getting now (which I know will go away with aging) mixed with the raisiny, malty smell. I can smell a bit of alcohol after the hops first hit, which is expected and will hopefully mellow out as well.
Flavour: I can taste the alcohol at this stage in my room temperature, zero carb sample, but it's mostly in the aftertaste. I get a good Hop Bitterness/Malt balance up front, but it gets wiped out by the alcohol in the finish. It was intended to be aged, so that's what I expected.
Mouthfeel: In my opinion it's medium to full bodied while not carbed and room temp.
Overall: I think that as long as my sanitation was bang on and I didn't somehow expose it to too much oxygen, this beer is going to be pretty darn good after coming home from the Arctic Circle! I may even try using it in a koodlik (or kudlik)
The photo makes it look darker than it is. I filled the keg to about an inch below the brim and had this much left over.