We took a trip to the Home Brew Mart, our local supply shop, to procure some bottles and a few other small accessories for bottling. Nicole had decided that she was interested in getting the supplies for our next brew - a hefeweizen. She sought out the help of one of the store employees and they started talking about the brewing process. And in the course of the conversation and Nicole's many, many, many questions -- we found out that in our current batch, we were NOT supposed to have left the hops in the fermenter lo these two weeks.
The guy kind of looked at us, shook his head, and said "Well, we'll see how it turns out." He then explained a myriad of options to us, regarding how the beer could turn out. It could be rank, or bitter, or hoppy or just fine. There was only one way to find out -- go home and taste it.
We tapped our bucket, and started a line out.
It looked like beer! This was a great moment for both of us -- that strange bucket of who-knows-what had been sitting in our office for two weeks, and we had no idea what it looked like. To see it coming out and looking (and smelling!) like beer was a real thrill for us.
But how did it taste....?
It tasted great! Very hoppy, to be sure, but a nice hoppy.
Nicole liked it too! "That's pretty damn good!" is what she actually said. And she says she never curses.
Then it was time to bottle!
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