Journal of Brewing

Looking inside the fermenter (or spackle bucket as Pete likes to call it) there was the typical layer of gunk around the top. All foaming had settled but there was quite a good amount of flocculation on the bottom that I observed after siphoning. I took a gravity reading and it stood at 1.010. Taking from my homebrew book (Papazian) this means

Alcohol By Volume (ABV) = 4.59375

Apparent Attenuation = 77.77%

Well, I’m happy with that. Of course I gave it a taste. At first I was skeptical. It had not much mouth feel, but I was also used to drinking beer with more body. I realized that I had not used nearly as much fermentable sugar in this recipe. Also, the hops were certainly present which came as a surprise. They were right about the honey, it really didn’t add body at all. Does this mean that meade has a light mouthfeel too?

So it’s racked over to the secondary. I’ll be taking it over to the keg this evening.