Plastic vs. Glass bottles

I noticed something when I was trying some of my home brewed beer recently. I used some recycled glass bottles for some of the beer and for the rest I bottled it in plastic bottles that came with the kit. I recently tried some out of a plastic bottle for the first time, and the beer was noticeably more carbonated and had a much richer head to it than the beer that was in the glass bottles. I suppose this could be because I was able to get a tighter seal on the plastic bottles than the glass ones, but I wonder what happened.

I tried the beer...

...and it was good! It's a pale ale, so it went down pretty smooth. It tasted like something you could buy, so I was pretty pleased with that. All in all, I'd call my first attempt at home brewing a complete success. I'll try to post a picture of what it looked like in the near future.

The beer is bottled!

This morning I bottled the beer that's been fermenting in my closet for the past two weeks. Now I just need to let it sit for a week or two, then give it some time for conditioning. I'm thinking it will be good to go just in time for the Super Bowl, if I can wait that long. I might have to sneak some before then and see what I have...

Update on brewing at home

So I could have bottled the beer which is currently sitting in my closet, getting all nice and ready for me. I tasted it and it tasted like very flat beer, which is good - that's how it should taste at this point. But I decided to wait and give it an extra week before bottling it for carbonation because if it was good after one week, it should be really good after two, right? Anyway, I plan on bottling it this weekend and then in a few weeks after that I'll hopefully be drinking it!
I'll let the world know how good it is when I try it.

Home-brew

Today I started my first ever batch of home-brewed beer. My wonderful wife gave me a kit for Christmas with everything needed to make beer at home. So this morning I sanitized everything and brewed the wort and added the yeast and all that good stuff. Now the mixture is sitting in a closet away from sunlight and in a couple of weeks I'll bottle it and let it sit some more. When it's all done I'll sample it and let you know how it is!