bperlmu
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I was just wondering if anyone has noticed a difference in bigger beers that need more aging time that were aged in larger (than 12 oz's) bottles as compared to the normal 12ers. I just drank the last bottle of a dubbel i brewed over the summer and i noticed that the bigger bottles seemed to taste better....have people out there found that for longer aging, bigger bottles are better? i was thinking that this would make sense because there is less oxygen in the bottle for a lager amount of beer so perhaps that would make it age more smoothly? is this why so many belgian and strong beers come in larger bottles? I have a trippel coming up that is going to take a significant amount of time to age and was just pondering this question. I like to have some 12 oz bottles on hand as testers, but i was thinking about bottling most of the batch in bigger bottles for the longer aging period. Just wondering what people think about this.
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