Early taste test

[ACESFULL]

Another soapless way is to put them in the oven.
Load up the oven then turn it on to 350. Hold it at 350 for like five minutes. Turn off the oven and let them cool overnight.
Perhaps you could put a small amount of water in the bottles and put a bit of tinfoil on the mouths.
Stack them in there laying down.

In How to Brew Palmer suggests that you put foil on bottle place in 350 oven for a minimum of 30 min that will sterilize the bottles and the foil on top will keep them that way until you pull off foil.

[snowcapt]

I was not aware that palmer said that. I gleaned the info from drew beechum, another all around good guy.

[Hoythews71]

After a 2nd week of bottle conditioning, I cracked a second bottle open and gave it a try. MUCH better taste. A slight hoppiness at the start, then a richness through the middle and end, with a little creamy aftertaste. I like it overall, but its missing that carbonation bite/burn...almost seems a little flat. I decided to give it another week before moving these cases to the fridge, but its well on its way!

I do have a question about my fermenting process though. I got the kit from MWSupplies and was reading reviews, and many of them said they left in primary for only a few days, then secondary for 1-2 weeks. Mine was exactly the opposite because I was in and out of town for 3 weeks while it was fermenting. Does this make a difference at all, or is it good as long as it gets the time to ferment?

[anday6]

Unless you are doing an actual 2nd fermentation with new sugar or new yeast/bugs, there is not reason to transfer to a 'secondary'. Your beer is likely better off than those that took the beer off the yeast after only a few days.

[mtyquinn]

You should be fine. Three weeks is perfectly fine and I think most/many folks around here would say a secondary is not needed for a beer like that.