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Mute Dog American Wheat

Home-Brew

Mute Dog, as most of my regular readers will know, is the label under which I bottle all of my homebrew beer and wine. We have recently released our first beer, an American Wheat which turned out quite well, if I do say so myself.

This weekend, according to the calendar, my beer was officially ready to drink. It turned out really well. It's a wheat beer with a distinctive hoppy character to it. It reminds me of another beer I've had recently but the name eludes me.

The beer itself is fairly clear and a nice golden brown color the head isn't especially resilient but then this isn't a stout. I think it could use a little more carbonation which may come with additional conditioning. As we all know it's cold in my house so this ale yeast is struggling to perform even though the beer is stacked in front of a heat vent with a blanket over it. I'm hoping another week will help it, but it's still good even if the yeast has given out on me. It did finish fermenting in the freezing house so I can't ask much more of it can I?

I labeled a number of the bottles that are going to be given to various folks. Funny story; because I'm too lazy to measure the circumference of a standard ISB long neck beer bottle (of which I have plenty) and the internet knows everything I searched online for standard beer bottle dimensions. This info is actually a bit harder to find that you would think, however I eventually found that which I sought, or so I thought (hey that rhymes!).

I found some college kids paper about doing some experiments with beer bottles and their pressure resistance or something? anyway they had the bottle measurements in there and they said the ISB bottle's circumference was 11 inches. Had I been thinking clearly I should have realized that this was exceptionally wrong, but I didn't. Long story short, my labels were way too long. I ended up cutting off the little story I wrote about the brewery that should have wrapped around to the back and then they fit pretty well, though they do need to be redesigned for future brews.

Dumb college kids can't measure their beer properly...

Posted Dec 15, 05:28 PM by Matt |

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