It’s that time again. Time to spend several hours cleaning, bottling beer and cleaning everything all over again. Though I was not planning to bottle these two brews together at the same time, the additional work involved is less then if I were to bottle them on separate days. Anyways if these are both drinkable in 7-14 days I am going to have 3 beers on tap; My Oatmeal Stout which is starting to become very good as its ages in the bottles, and my two newly bottled beers the Dark Irish Ale and Eurorail Ale.

As usual I grossly over estimated the number of bottles I needed, cleaning over 80 pints worth and only filing approximately 45 pints. I guess its better to be way over then way under.

I moved them both into separate bottling buckets and primed both batches with exactly 3/4 dextrose. The final results of my labors yielded 20 pints of Dark Irish Ale and 25 pints of Eurorail Ale. Both came out with the same final gravity, 1.011.

This puts the Dark Irish Ale at 3.8% ABV and the Eurorail Ale at 3.5% ABV. Both are around 175Kcal/pint which makes them almost as many calories as a can of beer. I also took a small sample tastes of both and am pleased to say they are quite pleasant for a warm, flat beer.

I am planning seven days in the bottle for the Irish Extract and fourteen days for the Partial Mash.

This is the Oatmeal stout looking very fine.