New brew - and a steak

First sample of the maple porter.  OK, well not the real first sample, I will explain.  During bottling I found myself two caps short so I decided to bottle the rest in canning jar, risky, I know but after two weeks and a bulging cap I cracked it open.  Very little bottle fizz, but that is ok.  I poured it off into my pint glass and it formed a nice head that lasted almost until I finished.  So I put another growler in the fridge and let that sit for two days to settle out.


Opened it last night and again very little bottle fizz, but this time it had a very light foam and dissipated in minutes, mind you it was still carbonated lightly and very tasty.  A slight bitter, with the sweetness expected.  Just a hint of maple, very palatable and excellent with the steak.


I think the break-down is growler bottling, I know in the past, before I gave away all my bottles the extra was always in the growler and it was saved for when the bottles were gone.  Always stacked up to quality of the bottles. In the home brewing world they say no way on growler bottling but only claiming bottle bombs, which I have had some explosive beers in them and they never broke.
I think for the future I need to either return to the 50 bottles or get the 5 gallon corny keg, in the end same price but with the keg I can fill the growlers when I want and store in the kegerator in the shed.  Save space!  What are your thoughts?


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