Recent content by BigggJack

I'll ask around at work to see if anyone drinks any of those brands. I'll have an occasional Sam Adams when I'm out for dinner, but, that's all off that list. Thanks for the welcome

That's a bummer about the bass bottles [emoji17] one of the few pry top beers I'll buy a case at a time to get enough bottles. I'll take a look at the Guiness 22 oz tops when I open one and see how those are. I was trying to avoid getting into kegging right away, but, I guess that's something...

I also think somewhere shortly down the road I'd like to make switch to all swing tops, but, nothing I drink commercially uses them

I didn't use a bench capper, it was the butterfly wing style capper that I used. The bottle pictured is a 12ounce Bass Ale, I also used a couple 22 ounce Guinness Bottles. One out of the two Guinness caps seems a little skewed as are a couple of the Bass caps. I do know there was quite a few...

First Brew 2.5 gallon batch of a Vanilla Porter. It's a relatively easy recipe with a short grain mash and LME during the boil with only one dose of hops. I was a little intimidated and probably over thinking it all, I did use some of the tips found in the bottling forum to make that go easier...