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I contacted both companies when I started this thread and have not received a reply yet. They might not want to deal with selling just 1 barrel to some lowly home brewer lol

Lavender is for soap:)

I already have kegs , my shift at work has 26 guys and 2 gals , a lot with wife’s and kids. Several times a year we will get together. They all know I brew. We could finish off a barrel in a night. It would only be used for when we all got together.

4385 + 12 gallons witbier + 11 gallons Helles = 4408

I think it still imparts some kind of flavor , I’m not sure. Just in the research phase of this plan. My back yard bonfires in the winter with my neighbors need a barrel of beer.

Brewers pitch is made of pine pitch and resin. Pitch is a by product of making turpentine. It’s more or less a solid at room temp but you can heat it up and coat the inside of the barrel to keep away the oak flavor and to help seal the barrel.

I also saw barrels made by sascha rudnik. I don’t know if I want to know how much shipping would be . Has anyone here ordered from either of these company’s before ?

Has anyone bought a wooden barrel and lined it with pine pitch to use as a serving keg at parties? I’m thinking of starting with a small one to test it out. My plan is to lager my beer out like usual , krausen in the barrel and then seal it up for a few weeks to carb and get clear again before...

You really need to give WLP-300 a try , I know someone else posted it and I know it’s supposed to have an equivalent but I have made a lot of Hefeweizen and I find 1 pack of WLP-300 per 5 gal at 66 degrees gives me lots of banana. Good luck with the quest !

Gose , batch 2 Has 3 strains of lacto ,2 bretts and wlp29

I’ve been doing this since my 3rd batch a couple years ago. My false bottom was crap so I improvised and got a bag from my LHBS . I brew with a lot of wheat and haven’t had a stuck sparge since going this rout.

3430+ 10 gallons of Gose = 3440

It’s not done carbonating yet . Only been in the keg a few days but I had to pull a sample , ended up pouring 2 more ! It’s a pre prohibition American Pilsner at 30 ibu and 5.8 abv

I never brew ipa and I might only drink 1-2 a year . I almost exclusively brew lagers . Right now I have a pre prohibition American Pilsner going . I brew a lot of Pilsner these days.

It’s I always take 2 weeks for fermentation and lager till clear . Usually 2-4 weeks for me