Graffiti Alley Bottled!

We are extremely excited about our latest batch of Graffiti Alley that we bottled today. It is a beautiful golden colour with a very satisfying bitter structure layered on top of a wonderful, delicate malty profile. In a word: Amazing! Our move from using amber malts to pilsen seems to have been in the right direction. However, the beer will still undergo some more changes for the next couple of weeks as it carbonates in the bottle. We can only sit back and wait with anticipation until we can crack open that first bottle and taste the final result.

Ingredients

• 1 cup Toronto tap water.
• 60 grams corn sugar.

Directions

1. Bring 1 cup of tap water to a boil and add 60 grams of corn sugar. Boil them together for 5 minutes.

2. Take a hydrometer reading of the final beer.

3. Fill the siphon with the sugar water and add any remaining into the bottling bucket. Siphon from the fermenter to the bottling bucket.
4. Fill the bottles and cap them. The bottles will need to be stores at room temperature for at least 2 weeks to properly carbonate.

Notes

• Final gravity: 1.008 (~5.8% ABV)
• Quantity made: 27 x 355ml (9.59 liters)
• We opened up a bottle of Muskoka Brewery Mad Tom IPA, one of our favourite beers, to do a side by side comparison. Since Mad Tom has been dried hopped, it has a much richer up front hop aroma. This is definitely something we'll attempt in a future batch. Surprisingly our beer lost most of its bitterness and had a light sweet taste when sampled after Muskoka's brew.