Tripod
Well-Known Member
Greetings All!
First things first. I am brand-new to home brewing and I'm already obsessed. My lovely and/or talented wife gave me a brew-kit for my birthday this past August and I am preparing to brew my first extract batch (maybe a Red Ale). I have learned more from these threads than many books combined. Even though I have not yet brewed batch #1, I already feel like I am armed with better-than-average knowlege just because of the info and tips I have found here. This has to be the best forum available!
Now for my question/inquiry. I am planning to brew more than one batch...different days but I'm not planning to fully consume the first 50 bottles before starting another type. So I would like to write some sort of code onto my caps that will help me later to identify things like the date it was bottled, what type of beer is inside, etc... Do any of you "pros" do anything like that? If so, could you recommend a coding system that can pack good info onto the tiny space of a bottle cap?
I suppose I could use a label but then I am constantly cleaning off labels. Would rather just code the cap so I can quickly ID the beer from above. I plan to purposely pull 4-6 bottles aside to age a while and I could easily forget what is inside and how long it was there. Any thoughts?
-Tripod
First things first. I am brand-new to home brewing and I'm already obsessed. My lovely and/or talented wife gave me a brew-kit for my birthday this past August and I am preparing to brew my first extract batch (maybe a Red Ale). I have learned more from these threads than many books combined. Even though I have not yet brewed batch #1, I already feel like I am armed with better-than-average knowlege just because of the info and tips I have found here. This has to be the best forum available!
Now for my question/inquiry. I am planning to brew more than one batch...different days but I'm not planning to fully consume the first 50 bottles before starting another type. So I would like to write some sort of code onto my caps that will help me later to identify things like the date it was bottled, what type of beer is inside, etc... Do any of you "pros" do anything like that? If so, could you recommend a coding system that can pack good info onto the tiny space of a bottle cap?
I suppose I could use a label but then I am constantly cleaning off labels. Would rather just code the cap so I can quickly ID the beer from above. I plan to purposely pull 4-6 bottles aside to age a while and I could easily forget what is inside and how long it was there. Any thoughts?
-Tripod