I just today transferred Bootleg Bill's Brown Porter from the primary to a secondary and I've gotta say, I done good! It's looking and smelling a lot like Porter! Sure, maybe not as nice as my favourite go-to Porter, Boundary Road Brew's Jack The Sipper, but that's a pretty damn high bar. There's only so high you can shoot when you're brewing with Linwood tapwater and you lack a bouron (or whiskey) soaked oak barrel in which to age your beer.
That said, goddamn it smells good! I can't wait to drink it. I'm giving serious thought to just drinking it straight out of the carboy and licking the sides to get every last drop. It smells that good. But I'm getting way ahead of myself. At the moment, I lack the requisite amount of bottles in which to put said Porter. There goes a big-ass chunk of this weeks' pay. Nevertheless, there's no real urgency when it's just taking it easy in a glass carboy.
I'm going to be house-sitting for a week this week, but I'm still hoping to fire off another brew if the finances allow. I still get nostalgic about my Strontkop, so what I'd really like to try is Strontkop 2.0, the new and improved recipe, which will be the first bonafide all-grain I've had the chance to do. Besides not being hamstrung by extracts, I'll be bringing everything I've learned about brewing since the previous batch; a kick-ass yeast start (I may splurge for some fancy-pants yeast if finances permit), racking to secondary and a much clearer understanding of the brewing process in general. I can't wait!
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