First batch done!

[brewman551]

Just bottled my first brew! It was a stout, Otto brothers moose juices stout. OG was 1.052, FG was 1.020 on Tuesday and today. Today marked 21 days in the fermenter at 65-69*. The weird thing was that I ended up with 52 beers. My first attempt a month ago was at apple cider, which only yielded about 44 or 45. So is 52 common? I'll let you know in a month how the stout tastes.

 

[insanim8er]

You could've made more than 5 gallons of beer. You could've racked off more beer into the bucket.. There really isn't a solid answer for that.

 

[autonomist3k]

It varies, my first was 48 beers, second was 54.
I brewed an IPA today and it was right at the 5 gallon mark on my carboy, but by the time I was done and the blowoff tube was in, there was already a 1" thick layer of hop material at the bottom. I'm guessing there's going to be quite a bit less than 50 beers when I bottle.
A guy I work with did a pumpkin ale and there was so much trub that he only got a little more than 3 gallons in the end.

 

[Captain Damage]

When people ask me how many bottles in a five gallon batch of beer, I say "Usually between seven and nine six packs." There are a lot of hard to predict and random variables. It's roughly two cases. But if you're expecting two cases and you come up a little short you'll start obsessing over what you did wrong, when you did nothing wrong, you just got a little less this time.

 

[brewman551]

Three weeks have passed since bottling. Just chilled the first and it's great! I'm only going to have one or two tonight, and save most for later since I know as a stout it will get better in the coming weeks and months.

 

[unionrdr]

I have a PM traditional stout in secondary now on bourbon soaked white oak till Tuesday. Should be great by Christmas eve. The flavors of stouts can take months to fully develope. And I pour my chilled wort through a dual layer fine mesh strainer into the fermenter. Even with cold break from the use of super moss in the boil,I wind up with about 3/8" of trub & yeast by bottling day. 51-53 bottles is fairly common to me.