Quite A Dilemma

Friday, July 6, 2007

Uh oh. I've put myself in a bit of a pickle.

A couple weeks ago a brewed a special batch of beer made with, among other things, Deseret Brand dried apples. Church Apple Cream Ale, I'm calling it.

It brewed up perfectly. I fermented it and racked it to a secondary fermenter along with the apples where it sat until last Sunday. On Sunday, I put most of the beer into 2-litre bottles to carbonate. This plan was supposed to get the beer ready to take with me on my forthcoming eight-day Grand Canyon excursion. Or, as I'm calling it, Certain Death By Sun Exposure. Only a handful of glass bottles were filled as they won't travel well on the trip.

Here's my dilemma. Thanks to the recent hot temperatures, the beer is ready early. A week and a half early. It only took four days in the bottle to carbonate fully. And now that it's done, I want to drink it. Well, not all of it... but some. And, as I mentioned, most of it is in 2-litre bottles. If I open one of those I'm obligated to drink all of it leaving me both drunk and short on beer.

This isn't one of those problems like world hunger or say, having your intestines sucked out by a swimming pool pump or anything. Really, it's not an actual problem at all. But it does mean less beer to share on the trip. Or worse... I might have to buy beer to drink this week.

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