Trap Door Ale (bottled)

So the Trap Door got a little love last weekend... After mellowing out in my closet in secondary for almost a month, it got primed (with Dark Muscovado sugar) and bottled on Sun, Oct 12 while watching the Niners lose.

Like the Hidden Door, once bottled, it was taken down the street to the muddy cellar. I plan to let it bottle condition for at least a month (though I do plan to sample one after two weeks to monitor). I put a few bottles in a hallway up some stairs from the cellar (guessing it is a bit warmer), to see if that makes much of a difference as far as bottle conditioning is concerned.

It yielded a little under two cases worth of beer.

Also, when bottling, a sample was pulled and tasted by myself, my wife Hannah, and my friend Mike, and all of us agreed that it is coming along nicely. Both Hannah and Mike said it tasted better than Chimay. We'll see about that! If anything, my Belgian stylings are going in the right direction, it seems.