BIPA 5.8%

I gave a couple of dozen nice self-capping beer bottles to an old student of mine and, by way of reciprocity, she dropped off a few of her homebrew to me (not in the bottles I gave her).

This was the first I've opened and it's very nice. Labelled simply with a marker on the cap, it says BIPA 5.8%. Unlike me when I made beer, she is careful to note the specific gravity and knows precisely the alcoholic content; this Black IPA was 5.8%. Its bottle was a half-litre bottle that looks a little like lab bottles I have known. But it has a capping lip.

Did I say it was very nice? It was delicious. And since she pays attention to specific gravity, she also bottles her beer knowing how much sugar is left, so it carbonates in a much more sophisticated way than my old beer -- I'd put a half spoonful of sugar in each bottle when capping it, and resultingly it had a thick scum of sedimentary yeast when you opened it. Hers is clear to the last drop. Mmmm.