No brewing today, but Steve and I racked the Spitfire Ale out of the primaries and harvested the yeast for later reuse.  One primary was racked to a corny keg with 1.5 ounces of First Gold plugs, while the other half of the batch was racked to a secondary.  Gravity on the kegged half was 1.013 and the other half was 1.014.  The idea is to serve the first corny keg on the handpump and see how it is, and if it seems like a good beer to serve at Steve’s wedding in July, we will keg the other half and take it for the reception.  Initial samples are promising, it has some maltiness and good colour.

The yeast was dumped out of the primaries into a couple of 2 litre flasks, with the idea of using it one more time to ferment a batch next weekend.  There was no sign of any negative flavours in the sample beer, so it seems like we will be able to get six uses out of this yeast.