cheezydemon
Well-Known Member
This is not a testament against kegging.
Tonight, I am awash in beer. No, I am not "druck" (seems to be the term lately) I just have a lot of homebrew at my disposal. Quite an improvement from christmas. I gave away most of what I had stored....but not all.
No, my friends, the beauty of the bottle, is simply this:
I have a lot of freshly brewed beer. I have a Helles Munich, my second AG, that is spot on!
I have a Gyle whatever..actually the second runnings from the helles that I fortified with some extra light DME and some extra hops. Lovely!!!!
I have a third "session" beer at my disposal, a 3 lb bag of extra light DME, 2 lbs of sugar, and 3 ounces of cascade hops, fermented with irish ale yeast (wl). A winner to be sure! A staple of mine as a session beer.
But what am I sipping as I write all of this? which of my myriad of light to extra light beers am I sipping? NONE.
I grabbed one of the eight "Dave's Imperial Stout"s that I have stored on my beer shelf in the basement. Damn if it doesn't taste lovely, amid all of this lagered helles and light DME.
And that, my friends, is the beauty of bottling. I can't see taking a corny out of the basemant 1 year later and saying "hey, I think I will have the last 16 ounces of this brew, the dregs, that I made 13 months ago!"
To each their own, but bottling will always be at least half of my arsenal.
Tonight, I am awash in beer. No, I am not "druck" (seems to be the term lately) I just have a lot of homebrew at my disposal. Quite an improvement from christmas. I gave away most of what I had stored....but not all.
No, my friends, the beauty of the bottle, is simply this:
I have a lot of freshly brewed beer. I have a Helles Munich, my second AG, that is spot on!
I have a Gyle whatever..actually the second runnings from the helles that I fortified with some extra light DME and some extra hops. Lovely!!!!
I have a third "session" beer at my disposal, a 3 lb bag of extra light DME, 2 lbs of sugar, and 3 ounces of cascade hops, fermented with irish ale yeast (wl). A winner to be sure! A staple of mine as a session beer.
But what am I sipping as I write all of this? which of my myriad of light to extra light beers am I sipping? NONE.
I grabbed one of the eight "Dave's Imperial Stout"s that I have stored on my beer shelf in the basement. Damn if it doesn't taste lovely, amid all of this lagered helles and light DME.
And that, my friends, is the beauty of bottling. I can't see taking a corny out of the basemant 1 year later and saying "hey, I think I will have the last 16 ounces of this brew, the dregs, that I made 13 months ago!"
To each their own, but bottling will always be at least half of my arsenal.