{"id":113,"date":"2012-04-04T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slingmeabeer.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/04\/esb-in-the-bottles-11\/"},"modified":"2012-04-04T07:30:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T14:30:59","slug":"esb-in-the-bottles-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"ESB in the bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I consider myself a veteran homebrewer, but coming back to the craft after three years can sometimes show where your details aren&#8217;t entirely in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Brewed an ESB 4 weeks and 3 days ago. Great little recipe using extract and a huge amount of crystal malt. Only Willamette hops too, but 3 ounces.<\/p>\n<p>So my mistake comes not in the brewing and fermentation, but the bottling. Standard bottling procedure is 3\/4 cups of dextrose boiled into a pint of water solution and mixed with the entire batch of beer in the bottling bucket. Well, sometimes the siphoning procedure doesn&#8217;t mix it well enough&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:2080\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-34-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-808\" width=\"286\" height=\"508\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Tasted pretty good, if not just really green still. Smells great thanks to all that crystal and Willamette. Hoping a few more weeks will allow the co2 to mix better into solution and help condition the beer further.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned all over again: Mix your priming solution in well. Your bottles are begging you.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n<p>Matt<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I consider myself a veteran homebrewer, but coming back to the craft after three years can sometimes show where your details aren&#8217;t entirely in a row. Brewed an ESB 4 weeks and 3 days ago. Great little recipe using extract and a huge amount of crystal malt. Only Willamette hops too, but 3 ounces. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[77,138,144,182,224,251,283],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brewing-beer-and-fermentation","category-tasting","category-homebrewing","tag-brewing","tag-esb","tag-fermentation","tag-homebrewing","tag-matt-post","tag-overcarb","tag-rookie-mistake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ajgonzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}