HopHeadGrady
Well-Known Member
Hey All,
Just wanted to pass along an experience I just had that I hope I dont have to repeat again. I had just finished bottling a batch of my Pitch Invasion ESB (Mash Extract using Muntons Yorkshire Bitter) I had in a 6.5 gal fermenter. Its week 4 and its time to go. So I ended up having 6 sanitzied 1L bottles kicking around after and decided to see how my Jack the Sipper is doing (another mash extract but this time using Muntons Premium Gold Smugglers Ale). It was 1012 for 3 days so I decided to bottle a couple. It had been fermenting for 10 days. I wanted to test these 10 day old beers against the beers I will bottle in another few weeks.
So I go over to my coopers diy fermenter and pop the racking cane in and it immediately starts to drip, leak and seep beer everywhere from around the spigot.
I got my 6 bottles full (save the children first) and proceeded to try and stop the leak. No dice.
I had to scramble to sanitize the other fermenter I just racked from and rack the Jack the Sipper from Coopers DIY into the 6.5 gal pail. I lost about a pint, nothing major, cost of doing business. This ale was expensive though, I used a lot of top grade stuff. Proabably 60 bucks for the 25L batch (haha)
Its strong (for me)and tastes amazing even before going into the bottle. OG was 1054, FG was 1012. Makes me wonder how my Midas Touch Mash Extract recipe is going to be like which was 1060
At this time I am looking at about 60 1L beers in my beer cellar room... lol
So I filled the coopers diy fermenter up with water and repeated my actions and sure enough the leak happened again. I went 3 for 3...
CLIFF NOTES: You may want to take caution before deciding to do a partial rack from the coopers diy fermenter. Only rack if you are racking the entire batch as inserting the racking cane seems to kick off a leak in the tap. This is just my experience.
On the other hand I will be able to test out the difference between a 10 day fermentation and a secondary fermentation that has sat for a month.
Just wanted to pass along an experience I just had that I hope I dont have to repeat again. I had just finished bottling a batch of my Pitch Invasion ESB (Mash Extract using Muntons Yorkshire Bitter) I had in a 6.5 gal fermenter. Its week 4 and its time to go. So I ended up having 6 sanitzied 1L bottles kicking around after and decided to see how my Jack the Sipper is doing (another mash extract but this time using Muntons Premium Gold Smugglers Ale). It was 1012 for 3 days so I decided to bottle a couple. It had been fermenting for 10 days. I wanted to test these 10 day old beers against the beers I will bottle in another few weeks.
So I go over to my coopers diy fermenter and pop the racking cane in and it immediately starts to drip, leak and seep beer everywhere from around the spigot.
I got my 6 bottles full (save the children first) and proceeded to try and stop the leak. No dice.
I had to scramble to sanitize the other fermenter I just racked from and rack the Jack the Sipper from Coopers DIY into the 6.5 gal pail. I lost about a pint, nothing major, cost of doing business. This ale was expensive though, I used a lot of top grade stuff. Proabably 60 bucks for the 25L batch (haha)
Its strong (for me)and tastes amazing even before going into the bottle. OG was 1054, FG was 1012. Makes me wonder how my Midas Touch Mash Extract recipe is going to be like which was 1060
At this time I am looking at about 60 1L beers in my beer cellar room... lol
So I filled the coopers diy fermenter up with water and repeated my actions and sure enough the leak happened again. I went 3 for 3...
CLIFF NOTES: You may want to take caution before deciding to do a partial rack from the coopers diy fermenter. Only rack if you are racking the entire batch as inserting the racking cane seems to kick off a leak in the tap. This is just my experience.
On the other hand I will be able to test out the difference between a 10 day fermentation and a secondary fermentation that has sat for a month.