Ordered mine and should be here tomorrow. How are most people filling the bottles? Racking to bottling bucket and then to TAD bottles? Or racking directly from fermenter?
Since I bottle part of mine in the TAD and part in bottles, I just bulk prime in the bottling bucket, fill my TAD bottle(s) and then my 12 oz'ers. Techincally, it's overpriming the TAD bottles, but I've never had any problems.
Why would you want use tabs with a TAD? That would be like 85 tabs per bottle...
How long can you store beer in the PET bottles before it starts oxidizing?
I read that people are adding tablespoons of corn sugar to the TAD bottle. Are you adding it directly? or boiling it with water and then adding.
I just did mine like I would do bottles from my bottling bucket...I'm so psyched to try it.
I wound up using 38mm wine caps instead of the cheap caps that came with the bottles. They have a nice plastic gasket in them and are a bit deeper and seal perfect.
Also where would one get these wine caps?
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/products/ProdByID.aspx?ProdID=5643
Those caps are listed as being the ones to use when priming. I bought enough for all my bottles. Will use them when I bottle in a week.
whoops, I goofed. I got the same caps you have listed from AHB, but I got them at my LHBS instead of Midwest. I ordered the TAD caps from midwest and got the standard ones with the waxy cardboard seal.
All I can tell you is the polyseal caps were in the wine section of the store, but they are the same and work great.
My first TAD batch has been in the basement naturally conditioning for seven days now. Next Saturday, we are having a family gathering and some of them like a good beer. I plan to start cooling one of the TAD bottles a day or two in advance and then charging with a CO2 cylinder...keeping my fingers crossed that it turns out well.
On another note: Now that I've assembled some new gear to brew 5gal batches (RIMS), I'm wondering why I need that much beer of the same style. My wife drinks very little beer and I have one buddy who lives close that enjoys really good beer. I've started thinking about brewing smaller batches. I now have seven TAD bottles and if I were to brew 3gal batches, that would fill 2 TAD bottles. This means I can have three different brews in TAD bottles and have a spare bottle. We have a lake house and I could keep a few there as well and never get bored with a beer style or have to worry about beer spoiling...the horror. All I need is a second tap for the lake. This BYO article has inspired me:
http://***********/stories/article/indices/15-brew-on-premise/1410-small-scale-brewing
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