imported from old blog, originally posted March 2010
We bottled the Red Ale last night - 52 bottles. They are bottle conditioning now (we added priming sugar to carbonate, plus they need to age in the bottle). We expect they will bottle age for around 3 weeks, but its difficult to predict how long it will need.
From our taste testing, this seems like it wll be a malty beer, with a good hop bitter balance, not overly sweet. There was a little more roasty flavor than I thought there might be, but the carbonation might help wash that out.
FYI, with this batch, I "harvested" the Scottish yeast I used after the fermentation was over, "washed" it and have stored four jars of it for future use. This is our first effort at managing our own yeast - rather than just buying it - another element of truly handmade beer.