Friday, June 05, 2009
it is time, you and i to go on a little journey through me. let us not be social. let us be familiar. watch what minutia is important to me. what are the things i hide from polite society, and yet still hold impact. just by general comparison, those things have to have more sway. they are the things important enough to protect and shield from scrutiny, because despite their apparent aberrant nature, they have been deemed irreplaceable.
sitting here, i see 3 empty bottles of drifter pale ale. only one from tonight though, at this juncture. not so oddly, i feel like finishing off the last of my currently drinkable 22's of my own pale ale. these two beers will forever be linked in my mind. i found them at the same time, and so drifter has been my comparison, not because of their similarity, but more in terms of a quantification of quality. how different are they, on a scale of good beers? i don't know, i am biased. i like my beer better, but that is only because i recognize exactly where its weak points came from, so i can forgive them. drifter has no weak points, but peach fuzz has the higher potential in my opinion, in terms of my tastes. at the moment, it is not better. and yet, i still rate it higher, mostly out of vanity. the key point to me, my beer was in the neighborhood in terms of beer quality, close enough that i could make comparisons and not feel unjustified. we will see how peach fuzz II turns out. tomorrow, it goes in the bucket. next friday into bottles. the friday after, my brain banana via my stomach. the recipe changed a little though, due to changes in grain availability. so i am skeptical. i mean, even with the exact same recipe, i can't go in with the expectations of it automatically tasting similar or being as good as my first batch. so changing it, i will just have to taste it. i am still excited though. i am so happy with the first one, and i have made a conscious effort to make the second one better based on the objective analysis of the first attempt. and it is already in the works. i did the hard part, the scientifically sensitive part. now i just have to get it into a container capable of storing it for a suitable period of time. that is all it really is, transferring liquid twice.
wow, ok, so now that i've regrouped from my various distractions and actually gotten my beer, i am finally realizing how awesome this glass ryan gave me is. barring improper carbonation, you can carefully pour off a full homebrewed 22, and leave a perfect amount of pinger crap on the bottom to contain the yeast and keep it out of your glass. thank you.
sitting here, i see 3 empty bottles of drifter pale ale. only one from tonight though, at this juncture. not so oddly, i feel like finishing off the last of my currently drinkable 22's of my own pale ale. these two beers will forever be linked in my mind. i found them at the same time, and so drifter has been my comparison, not because of their similarity, but more in terms of a quantification of quality. how different are they, on a scale of good beers? i don't know, i am biased. i like my beer better, but that is only because i recognize exactly where its weak points came from, so i can forgive them. drifter has no weak points, but peach fuzz has the higher potential in my opinion, in terms of my tastes. at the moment, it is not better. and yet, i still rate it higher, mostly out of vanity. the key point to me, my beer was in the neighborhood in terms of beer quality, close enough that i could make comparisons and not feel unjustified. we will see how peach fuzz II turns out. tomorrow, it goes in the bucket. next friday into bottles. the friday after, my brain banana via my stomach. the recipe changed a little though, due to changes in grain availability. so i am skeptical. i mean, even with the exact same recipe, i can't go in with the expectations of it automatically tasting similar or being as good as my first batch. so changing it, i will just have to taste it. i am still excited though. i am so happy with the first one, and i have made a conscious effort to make the second one better based on the objective analysis of the first attempt. and it is already in the works. i did the hard part, the scientifically sensitive part. now i just have to get it into a container capable of storing it for a suitable period of time. that is all it really is, transferring liquid twice.
wow, ok, so now that i've regrouped from my various distractions and actually gotten my beer, i am finally realizing how awesome this glass ryan gave me is. barring improper carbonation, you can carefully pour off a full homebrewed 22, and leave a perfect amount of pinger crap on the bottom to contain the yeast and keep it out of your glass. thank you.
