Microblogging is killing this blog

My activity on Twitter, which eventually lapsed to Facebook (I should really be updating my statuses via Twitter but forget constantly) has all but killed my desire to sit and compose long blog entries. I'm not sure how I feel about that yet.

In a sense, blogging feels like a good exercise, both in terms of compositional practice and in the attention I pay to topics that would become material for the entries. On the other, blogging can sometimes feel inefficient or futile when one's readership is so small and one's topics are so personal and/or esoteric.

In any case the rest of the current entry will serve as a brewing log, and a short one at that.

I bottled my IPA on Sunday evening (19th) which in retrospect was probably a few days early, since I'd forgotten that the initial brew was put into fermentation on a Tuesday. No incidents whatsoever during the bottling process, although I really could use a second pair of hands to tip the bucket for the final gallon of siphoning. Unfortunately the siphon usually occurs around 11PM, when the house is asleep, so I have to rely on my tenuous dexterity (and some luck) to get the job done.

Final gravity was 1.013, which probably would have dropped a couple of .001 if I had waited a couple of days.

Here's the calculation of the ABV:

ABW = 76.08(OG-FG)/(1.775-OG)
ABV = ABW (FG/.794)

So ABW = 4.774
ABV = 6.09%

Side note: the thickness of the trub was roughly 2 inches... quite noticeably thicker than the previous batch, which leads me to think that the Porter's original gravity was deficient resulting in less yeast generation.