My beautiful and lovely wife, Jenn, drove down to Salem today to drop off the beer for the State Fair Homebrew competition. The awards are announced at the end of August during the fair, so we'll let you know how things go.
We are very excited. We entered the Roid Rage into the Imperial IPA category. We have no idea how many other people enter this thing - so it will be a learning experience. We entered the Band Camp in the American Pale ale category. We also entered 3 labels that our friend Pete did into the label competition.
I tried the Band Camp last night. It still needs a few days to fully carbonate. It has a nice color. You can taste the ginger. I'll reserve final judgement until later next week.
We will rack the Super Bee to the secondary this week for sure. We want to make sure the fermentation is at least 95% completed. Shawn said that sometimes with honey - it can be sneaky. You think it's done, but its really not. In that case it would leave the beer sweet - more like malty honey juice than actual beer.
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In my heart they are award winning already! Love the logo!
Go Roid Rage! Go Band Camp! Go Roid Rage! Go Band Camp!
Honey can definitely be a slow ferment. In fact, in an all-honey fermentation, you need to add ample yeast nutrients to ensure your honey will even begin fermenting.
Two weeks seems about right, though, all things considered. I just have this feeling Super Bee is going to taste like a million bucks.
-S
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