Yo guys, yesterday, I bottled my Blue Mountain Lager from the fermenter. Now it is sitting in my cooling box waiting to get carbonation nice and fizzy to be stored later in my pretty cool stomach. Yes, I did a little sample and it tasted okay. There is no longer anymore sweetish/bubblegum smell. Most likely the smell is from the unfermented wort stuck on the fermentor cover when I shake it to get aeration. Yes, the wort is that thick! The yeast I used is a pretty fast acting yeast. I bottled yesterday and today, I can feel most of the bottles with some carbonation already. I am using PET bottles so you can feel the bottles. If they start to firm up, there is some carbonation already. Probably, in about 1 week or so, it will be fully carbonated. Hope that it will taste even better once it is carbonated and served cold in a tall glass! Never drank a commerical Blue Mountain Lager before, so I don’t know what to expect from this kit. From what I read from forums, the taste should be very pleasant with a little hop bitterness. The hops oil they use is Hallertau and it is supposed to give the Blue Mountain Lager it’s unique flavour.

I found that the recipe I used (Morgan’s Blue Mountain Lager Kit 1.5kg and 1kg of lager malt extract) will probably give me something of a light beer. I think it’s alcohol content is about 3% to 4% max. Well good enough for a session beer. Too bad about the colour though. It looks very amber/darkish and a few of my friends had commended about the colour as well. They are too used to golden coloured lagers that I am afraid that the colour alone will turn them off. But as I said, they should be more than willing to convert once they start sampling a little of the lager….hopefully.

Anyways, I don’t think I will be opening the bottles in just a week. Think it will really improve over time. I believe that a few weeks in the bottle will do it more justice. Plus, it will give me time to finish off my previous extract brew, which turns out pretty nice after a few weeks in the bottle. I guess what they say is correct, if you properly age a beer, you will never regret it.

Well, so do I. I mean, nowadays, who doesn’t. We all know that such things are usually not too good for us, but we still crave for them, don’t we? I myself have a sweet tooth and sometimes I indulge myself with some ice-cream and other snacks. But I usually control myself. It’s the Singaporeans who can’t control their appetites that is worrying to me. I have seen people eating huge amount of snacks instead of regular and healthy food and the number of such people is getting more and more. In fact, if you look around Singapore, you will see evidence of that. And worse still, look at our school children! In the past, my daily allowance is so little that I have not much left for snacks and sweets. Now, the children are all living the life (so to speak) and they have much more disposable income than I did before and guess what do they spend it on? You guess right! It’s sweets, ice-cream and snacks! Bad for their health. And this is coming from someone who has a sweet tooth.

No, I am not saying that eating a little snack or some fattening food now and then is bad. It is not bad. If you can moderate the amount of sugar intake, then this is good. But most people don’t or won’t. And that’s a very serious problem. When you eat too much sweets and fattening foodstuff, your health will be affected in the long run. I think it’s the Singapore culture that is to be blamed. That, and too easy access to these kind of foodstuff. Everywhere you go, you will see shops selling sweets and snacks. I mean, at nearly every MRT station or bus interchange in Singapore, you will find shops selling sweets/drinks/desserts/snacks there. You don’t even need to walk to get there! They are based in the interchange or MRT station itself! Convenient yes, good no. I really don’t know what they are thinking when they start to allow so many of such stores to open up in these location. It’s like the government is trying their best to make the people as unhealthy as possible!

Anyway I have created a listing of online sites which sells these kind of stuff. You can find the list of Singapore Confectioneries, Bakeries, Cake Shops, Dessert Shops and so on.  But don’t say I didn’t warn you about the health risks involved.