jswordy
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Currently in the secondary is my own recipe sweet dark stout. This is another experimental recipe and tasted good flat coming out of the primary, and the mouthfeel is out of this world chewy.
For this batch I used a new primary bucket my wife gave me back in the '90s. We'd put it in the attic and forgot about it! Well, anyway, the lid on the '90s bucket does not seal down like a regular paint bucket style does, so the 3-piece airlock never bubbled and the cap never lifted. All I could do was hope the ferment was ongoing. No worries, a nice 2" thick krausen ring around the walls when opened. It had even touched the top of the lid in one place. Yay! But I'll reserve that bucket for wine only now.
Could be bottling day Sunday, if I can find the time.
For this batch I used a new primary bucket my wife gave me back in the '90s. We'd put it in the attic and forgot about it! Well, anyway, the lid on the '90s bucket does not seal down like a regular paint bucket style does, so the 3-piece airlock never bubbled and the cap never lifted. All I could do was hope the ferment was ongoing. No worries, a nice 2" thick krausen ring around the walls when opened. It had even touched the top of the lid in one place. Yay! But I'll reserve that bucket for wine only now.
Could be bottling day Sunday, if I can find the time.