h4mmy86
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Plan to do my first one gallon batch momentarily! Been doing 5 gallon batches for a while now, just wanted to do some small scale experimentation. Pretty excited about this.
Sounds okay to me. I'd just be extra cautious cleaning that turkey baster.
Today, even though this isn't a good thing, I'm particularly proud. I got beer fermenting so hard right now I got some foam coming out my blowoff tube. Temp is a constant 66 degrees. It's the Nottingham ale yeast.
So I'm having a bit of a conundrum.
I am getting ready to buy my kit and stuff and I come across a website that sells Amber Glass Bottles (you know like the same basic color as the brown bottles used for brewing) and they sell them in packs of 4 for 18 bucks. Pretty great deal but shipping is also 18 bucks.
So do I buy the bottles that will keep out more light and be less likely to get skunky beer but pay 9 bucks each, or do I go with the clear glass jug from the LHBS for 5 bucks a pop.
Those better be way bigger then beer bottles. Northern brewer sells a case of 24 of those for 12 bucks. http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/brewing/brewing-equipment/bottling/beer-bottles-12-oz.htmlSo I'm having a bit of a conundrum.
I am getting ready to buy my kit and stuff and I come across a website that sells Amber Glass Bottles (you know like the same basic color as the brown bottles used for brewing) and they sell them in packs of 4 for 18 bucks. Pretty great deal but shipping is also 18 bucks.
So do I buy the bottles that will keep out more light and be less likely to get skunky beer but pay 9 bucks each, or do I go with the clear glass jug from the LHBS for 5 bucks a pop.
Any link to those bottles
Those better be way bigger then beer bottles. Northern brewer sells a case of 24 of those for 12 bucks. http://www.northernbrewer.com/shop/brewing/brewing-equipment/bottling/beer-bottles-12-oz.html
Hopefully I misunderstood and those are 1 gallon jugs. If they are 1 gallon jugs, could you post a link please?
I brewed my first all grain Saturday, it was centennial blonde, that's on the forums. I brewed 1.5 gallons of it so i could have some fun with the half gallon. I plan on adding raspberries to it. I know to cook them down to 160 degrees to kill stuff, but my question is how much? 1 cup, half cup, i am not sure where to start with this part of it.
Thanks for the advice about the yeast, guys!
White Labs is pretty much unavailable except by special order in my part of the country. Special order it is, I suppose!
Or, perhaps...road trip to Grand Forks for yeast!!!
Sounds okay to me. I'd just be extra cautious cleaning that turkey baster.
Today, even though this isn't a good thing, I'm particularly proud. I got beer fermenting so hard right now I got some foam coming out my blowoff tube. Temp is a constant 66 degrees. It's the Nottingham ale yeast.
jollyistheroger said:actually strike that, i just realized i over bought grain for my two berliner wiesses. So now i can either make 3 or find something else to do with a mix of pils and wheat. Any suggestions on something fun to do with an extra pound of pils and wheat (about 1.031 if i brewed straight) i have some dme i could boost it with too.
bellmtbbq said:lambic!!!!
hoppyhoppyhippo said:So I'm having a bit of a conundrum.
I am getting ready to buy my kit and stuff and I come across a website that sells Amber Glass Bottles (you know like the same basic color as the brown bottles used for brewing) and they sell them in packs of 4 for 18 bucks. Pretty great deal but shipping is also 18 bucks.
So do I buy the bottles that will keep out more light and be less likely to get skunky beer but pay 9 bucks each, or do I go with the clear glass jug from the LHBS for 5 bucks a pop.
I think you mean for fermenting? If so, use whatever you can get ahold of and just keep it out of the light. No biggie!
I would recommend that you save yourself some hassle and start with 3. Your going to be itching to start your second or third batch way before your first should really get bottled.... Well, I was anyway.It is for fermenting. I figure I'll probably just go with the clear jug cause I need the bungs and other things and might as well start with 1 1 gallon batch at a time and ramp up to higher numbers.
I would be interested to hear what others think is the best (easiest, most efficient, least mess, cleanest beer, lowest amount of O2) way to bottle 1 gallon batches that are fermented in glass jugs. I have 9 different 1-gal batches that I need to bottle at the same time, so figuring out a good process will be beneficial.
lambic!!!!
I would recommend that you save yourself some hassle and start with 3. Your going to be itching to start your second or third batch way before your first should really get bottled.... Well, I was anyway.
Nice. I order most of my stuff online.Luckily my LHBS is only like 10 minutes away so I just have a quick jump to go there. I figure I'm gonna start with this simcoe/amarillo IPA recipe I've formulated to see if I have the technique down, and I'm gonna do it BIAB style.
I rack to a one gallon jug with the priming sugar and just add the bottling wand to the siphon and bottle from there. Very little o2, no mess unless you make one.
In other words, you siphon into another one gallon jug as a bottling bucket of sorts, start another siphon with the wand attached, and bottled that way? Do you find much waste goes on with multiple siphons?
Here's what I'm bottling...
You leave the trub behind on the first rack and then take the tip off to get more when bottling
hoppyhoppyhippo said:It is for fermenting. I figure I'll probably just go with the clear jug cause I need the bungs and other things and might as well start with 1 1 gallon batch at a time and ramp up to higher numbers.
ocluke said:In other words, you siphon into another one gallon jug as a bottling bucket of sorts, start another siphon with the wand attached, and bottled that way? Do you find much waste goes on with multiple siphons?
Here's what I'm bottling...
ocluke said:Oops, that was just the yeast starters.
How would you do that with a mini-autosiphon? Or do you just use the racking cane? If my trub isn't too high I'm thinking of just buying conditioning tablets and putting thme in my bottles and seeing how that works with my auto siphon, because if I can't use my miniautosiphon to bottle I might as well just use a rackign cane.
The little black cap comes off the end of the auto siphon. If you are going the carb tab route use the carb drops(the big ones) not the little tabs, half the stuff I bottled with the little ones didn't carbed and I've read similar things online from others.
Ahh I wasn't sure if that was possible for the autosiphon to work under that condition. I was planning on using the large ones, that's the one my LHBS sells.
I probably am not going to get to bottle at the three week mark like I wanted to. I am sick and probably won't feel like bottling. It will be more like four weeks out. Will this affect the conditioning? Again, I am brewing the Northern Brewer 1 gallon Irish red ale.
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