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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Vanilla Porter: Stage 2 Fermentation
-- A Taste from TheInkFlowsLikeWine.com
Yesterday I took on the daunting task of siphoning my vanilla porter into a secondary fermentation carboy for some vanilla goodness. I sliced up my three Madagascar vanilla beans, scraped out the gunk inside, and threw it all in the freshly sanitized carboy before attempting to siphon. Last time I was forced to suck on the tube until I couldn't breathe, this most likely contaminated my beer somewhat, so I scoured the web for the proper way to siphon and found just that here.
It worked like a charm on the second try, the first only failing because I wasn't quick enough. After seeing how easy it was I felt rightly like a fool, and laughed it off. So 8 days of second fermentation and then I bottle. I'm considering doing another batch right away since I have two carboys and the hops left over to do another, but I want to see how it turns out first when I bottle. I also went to the Multnomah County Library to check out some books on brewing and found a nice one on sustainable brewing. Should be a good read... If you're interested, check it out here.
Enjoy!
