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.