Bourbon Dubbel

I didn’t get around to updating this, but I finally brewed the Bourbon Dubbel mix from the Brooklyn Brew Shop 2 weeks ago, and I’m planning to bottle it tonight.

Side note: it’s looking like Brooklyn Brew Shop is shutting down. Their quantity of products keeps decreasing, and I don’t even see the Bourbon Dubbel on their website at the time of this writing. Or they’re at least changing their direction from a beer kit shop to only their brewing recipe book…?

Anyways, I’ve learned that I need to figure out something in terms of restricting the sediment that gets into the wort, and especially the amount of sediment that ends up in my carboy. I know my friend Patrick uses cheese cloth, so I’ll have to give that a shot, but I’m brewing with such small batches (1 gallon) that it seems like an excessive use of cheese cloth for this. The funnel really just doesn’t work with the filter as the sediment blocks it too fast.

Also, I was planning on using my new hydrometer, but it doesn’t work as my carboy isn’t big enough for it to measure, and I don’t have a long slender

If I remember to, I’ll be sure to put some pictures of the bottling on here, especially since I have a question related to my carboy’s fermentation process.