{"id":269,"date":"2014-09-03T22:39:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T03:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/?p=269"},"modified":"2014-09-03T22:39:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T03:39:16","slug":"english-stout-rebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/03\/english-stout-rebrew\/","title":{"rendered":"English Stout Rebrew"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the previous batch ended up on the floor of the freezer<\/a>, we re-brewed the Use-it-up Stout<\/a> last month.\u00a0 This time we’ll call it English Stout, because we had used up all the old Maris Otter malt and had to buy more.\u00a0 Now that we’ve been able to sample all five gallons we think it turned out very well.<\/p>\n

This time we also entered it in a local homebrew competition in the American Stout category (13E) and it received a mediocre score.\u00a0 We believe this was for three reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. It was brewed about 25 days before the competition and did not have sufficient time to carbonate correctly, despite having been shaken at 30psi and then left at 16psi @ 40F for a day or two.\u00a0 When bottled for competition the beer was almost flat.\u00a0 Unfortunately, a week later it was correctly carbonated.<\/li>\n
  2. The beer is best after about 4 to 5 weeks of aging, so the beer we sent to the competition was still too green and the flavors had not mellowed enough.<\/li>\n
  3. American Stout was probably the wrong category for this beer, and it was docked points for not being to style.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we’re not sure what category it does<\/em> belong in, but re-reading the style guidelines, it may fit better in the Foreign Extra Stout category.\u00a0 We’re not sure why we didn’t pick that category in the first place.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So if you’re going to enter a competition, do your research and pick the right category.\u00a0 Also, know when your beer is at its prime, and make that<\/em> the time when the judges crack the bottle open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After the previous batch ended up on the floor of the freezer, we re-brewed the Use-it-up Stout last month.\u00a0 This time we’ll call it English Stout, because we had used up all the old Maris Otter malt and had to buy more.\u00a0 Now that we’ve been able to sample all five gallons we think it … Continue reading English Stout Rebrew<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brewitright.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}