tschmitt

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First one gallon mini mash IPA I left the sanitizer in the hose while starting the siphon and let it go into my bottling bucket. It kind of messed with the taste.

Second one gallon mini mash was a hefeweisen. It was very good but one gallon is not enough for the effort or demand so I geared up including an auto siphon (best thing I have bought so far) and a bottling bucket.

First five gallon batch was an Octoberfest Marzen mini mash kit from AHS. I do not have the ability to lager but they had an option for a yeast that could both work as a lager and ale yeast. Batch turned out like crap. In hindsight, the temp of the house did it in along with my ignorance of the importance of temp during fermentation.

Second five gallon batch ROCKS. Chocolate stout (also AHS mini mash kit) in my fridge now is the best beer I have ever had. Learning one step at a time and reading this forum is a big help...thanks to all that post. Now I have my labels designed & ordered custom caps and am planning out some holiday gifts. Tested the label using milk and they stick great. Really enjoying this hobby.

I now understand why you see people selling hundreds of bottles on line. I thought it was silly to have so many. Now I understand.

menerdari

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Congratulations on your eventual success, and many more to come.
I know what you mean by bottles. I have a crazy amount of beer bottled and need to run out tomorrow and buy another case of empties to bottle an amber I have ready.
I bought the avery shipping labels #8164 to make labels for bottles I give away and #5247 1" round mailing seals work great to mark the caps of bottles I keep.
If you haven't tried it yet check out beer labelizer for easy design of your own labels, pretty neat program.
http://www.beerlabelizer.com/

tschmitt

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Thanks for the tip on the labels and the site.