The Official Inoculator Follow-Up Thread

[Shawn, the Beer Philosopher]

Post your post-brew follow ups here. Tasting notes, highlights, lowlights or other ruminations on your experience brewing our 2nd collaborative brew! The Inoculator!

[Jimmy]

Hey! Nobody posted a followup yet :(

Not to be too self-congratulatory - but my Innoculator made it through to the second round of NHC. So clearly you guys came up with a good recipe!

I thought it finished a little to sweet, but it was also a little under attenuated. The keg is gone already though, so it must have been pretty good. Will definitely brew again!

[Rob DeNunzio]

Congrats on going to the second round with the Inoculator! Not much of a follow-up to post on my end as our keg barely made its way halfway through our annual Easter picnic before kicking (besides a handful of 22s we've got set aside). I felt that ours, too, came out a little sweet, but blame our balance issue less on attenuation than on the fact that our hops were a little old and likely degraded. We also ended up dry-hopping the keg to great success. By all accounts, it was the perfect pairing to a sunny day of grilling. Here's the only documented proof I have:

Which brings us to the next step. What's number three going to be? Time to start that thread going, too...

[Ray Grace]

Sorry I haven't posted about mine yet. Mine is tasting pretty good with a nice biscuity touch. My one problem has been that my bottles have had some gushing problems. It tastes great , no off flavors I can pick out so I'm not sure if I have a bug or maybe as others have thought about theirs it was under-attenuated and I'm just seeing fermentation finishing in the bottles. Makes me a little fearful of shipping.

[Tommy]

I just thought I'd chime in. After dealing with finals, going on vacation, and starting summer school, I finally bottled this. It spent 2 weeks in primary and 3 1/2 months in secondary. It's only been in bottles for a few days so I haven't tasted it yet, but as you can imagine, it was brilliantly clear coming out of the carboy. I'll post an update when I try it in a couple weeks.

-Tommy

[Tommy]

Here's the beer at bottling: