Home brewing thread anyone?

[EbS-P]

I guess it would go stale. The only real difference to my bottling at this stage is that my bottles get pressurized (by fermentation) after I bottle. They sit around for weeks until I put some in the fridge to start drinking that batch.

You can just prime it and seal it. It might foam a bit when you want to tap it. (I don’t know what tapping mechanism they use).

I’d be ok with treating as I do regular
Bottles.

 

[Whitenuckler]

You can just prime it and seal it. It might foam a bit when you want to tap it. (I don’t know what tapping mechanism they use).

I’d be ok with treating as I do regular
Bottles.

Actually that's what I was thinking. If I prime as usual, leaving a good air space, it would be like bottling. There appears to be a filter on the end of the pickup tube so any fines would get trapped. I would have it nice and cold before putting the tapping head on so there would be no foaming (I don't get any now and I have 750mil PET bottles). In fact these PET bottles come in 4 l size too. I wonder if I could just bottle in 4l and then open one up and drink it that day. I bottle 23l, so 6 of those 4l ones and maybe no CO2 system at all. That would not cost much to try.....$6.79 on sale right now - shoot sold out! They have sales all the time. Plus I have local stores I can check

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Edit - one drawback would be that I normally do a full pour all at once due to sediment. I don't think its a deal breaker, as that is just dead yeast and other nutrients, plus it tends to get a little sticky and is not that free to move around.

 

[EbS-P]

There appears to be a filter on the end of the pickup tube so any fines would get trapped.

When kegging you never drink the last couple glasses. In fact I have considered shortening my pickups.

I’d rather have no screen than a clogged screen.

 

[djlew]

2 gallon brew has been transferred to secondary but I haven't added flavor yet. I think we hit just above 4% ABV, not mad at it. Samples tasted really good and crystal clear. I had some free time and almost-used up ingredients so I did a quick gallon wheat brew with my remaining amarillo and citra hops. Fermentation took off right away, but again my boil off calculations are rough and I went too big this time so OG was quite low. It might be in the 3-4% range ABV when done, which again I am not mad at but practicing for predictability and consistency moving forward. I'm thinking of saving a gallon to try an apple ale with fresh juiced apples from my parent's tree. Once the base recipe is confirmed better than even the peach I think that might be my 5 gallon recipe base moving forward. We'll see!

 

[EbS-P]

2 gallon brew has been transferred to secondary but I haven't added flavor yet. I think we hit just above 4% ABV, not mad at it. Samples tasted really good and crystal clear. I had some free time and almost-used up ingredients so I did a quick gallon wheat brew with my remaining amarillo and citra hops. Fermentation took off right away, but again my boil off calculations are rough and I went too big this time so OG was quite low. It might be in the 3-4% range ABV when done, which again I am not mad at but practicing for predictability and consistency moving forward. I'm thinking of saving a gallon to try an apple ale with fresh juiced apples from my parent's tree. Once the base recipe is confirmed better than even the peach I think that might be my 5 gallon recipe base moving forward. We'll see!

Boil off is hard to judge. I just top it off with tap water in the fermenter. Never had an issue.

 

[djlew]

Boil off is hard to judge. I just top it off with tap water in the fermenter. Never had an issue.

Did that with the 2 gallon and it threw off my OG a bit but that was more of an efficiency issue I think. I went way over for the gallon which I guess could also be considered an efficiency issue but in the other direction, ideally I'd go under and top off, I agree with you there. I've done it in the past and been right on the money.

 

[EbS-P]

Did that with the 2 gallon and it threw off my OG a bit but that was more of an efficiency issue I think. I went way over for the gallon which I guess could also be considered an efficiency issue but in the other direction, ideally I'd go under and top off, I agree with you there. I've done it in the past and been right on the money.

I always just boil the final volume or 1/2 for my NA batches.

 

[djlew]

Little update, and I will edit with a pic or post one, got the cranberries out of the wheat ale and wow... deep red color, maybe even too much flavor, we'll see once carbed and cold. I took a sample and it was really good! We hit about 4% ABV, not mad. Planning on bottling this weekend and also brewing a basic wheat ale to use up my grain and practice a bit more to get better efficiency.

 

[djlew]

Sort of hard to get the full color in a photo but the cranberry wheat does look pretty good in this pic. Got the apple ale in the mini keg carbing and bottled the cranberry wheat with carb drops. Didn't get to my basic wheat brew yet since I spent the time I had this weekend bottling. Maybe next weekend! I'll post an update when they are carbed and ready and get some (hopefully) good looking beer photos!