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| Home brewing Tutorial - Step seven |
Aging and Enjoying your beer:
After the beer has developed
its carbonation, you will want to move it to a cooler
storage area. Steady, cool storage temperature
will keep your beer fresh for the longest time.
Almost all beers will improve
in flavor and aroma as they age. Most beers show
the best improvement after 6 to 8 weeks in the bottle. Storage
conditions have a big influence on this, as well as
the strength and flavor characteristics of the beer. Generally,
stronger beers age slowly, and light beers reach their
peak quickly.
Storage conditions have a big
influence on shelf life. Try to keep your beer
at a steady temperature, and away from sources of ultraviolet
light. Alcohol and hops are natural preservatives,
so high-alcohol and /or high-hop beers last longer. |
- Not everyone has an extra fridge to store 5 to 6
gallons of beer so just pick the coolest spot you can find
in your house.
- Naturally conditioned beer has two characteristics – yeast
sediment and chill haze. Yeast sediment is a byproduct
of the carbonating process, it settles on the bottom of the
bottles when carbonation is complete. While unpleasant
to the eye it’s healthy to drink - full of B vitamins.
- Even crystal-clear beer forms haze when chilled,
that’s why the ads talk about cold-filtering! Chill
haze is flavorless, and will settle out after refrigerating
bottles for a week or two.
- To serve crystal clear beer, refrigerate bottles
upright, and uncap them gently to avoid raising the sediment. Pour
the beer into a clean glass in one smooth motion, and stop
pouring when you reach the sediment.
- Rinse your empty bottles and store them for the
next batch!
Most of all enjoy making some great beer and then relax
and have a Home Brew!!!
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