30 Gallons of beer in the house

[NorCalAngler]

Seems everytime I get close to getting my pipeline built up I have people over and all more resources are depleated :rockin:

Sounds like a good problem to have. How did that blood orange hef turn out? Care to share the recipe?

 

[zerowatts]

I know this is an old thread, but looking at the level of consumption and production I am very curious (having not yet brewed my own), once it is bottled how long can it be stored in the basement or extra refrigerator? Is this something I can brew up all winter long say 50 gallons, bottle it all up for my summer cookouts with my brothers? Can it store well enough to sit 6 months if I cook up a few huge batches?

 

[artyboy]

A few months to a year is fine. Mine never lasts that long, though. Atm I have about 20 gallons of beer fermenting, 3 batches on tap (one is getting dumped...experiment gone horribly wrong), 5 gallons of wine fermenting, 2 cases of bottled wine and a couple of cases of various bottled beers. I'm a sixer or a bottle of wine a night kinda guy if I drink at all. I just try to eat really healthy and light to make up for all of the booze. When I want to drop 10 or 20 lbs I just quit drinking for a week or two and the weight disappears. Then it usually takes a good six months to a year to get back into "danger territory".

 

[zerowatts]

50 gallons should produce 500-550 12oz. bottles right? That's only 7 BBQ's with my family. I guess I never put the math to it. Huh! I was thinking you guys must be sloshes, my mistake! So I need to figure out how to produce 150-200 gallons now. That's alot of Mr. Beer's!

As far as storage, are there any pros or cons when comparing kegs to bottles (the class and metal bottles)?

Thanks for the quick reply artyboy.

 

[Whut]

Sloshes? Well maybe some of us but, I digress. 50 gallons would produce 520.8 12oz bottles. I've got 25 gallons in various stages of conditioning and fermenting. But come the annual birthday party in July that will be depleted by certain nephews who think consuming beer should be an Olympic Sport (yes, they're Marines). :rockin:

As for storage, I keg myself but that's just a personal preference. With bottling you have to clean and sanitize each one. With kegging you need to break them down to clean and sanitize. One really big bottle (aka keg) or lots of little ones. As for a kegerator, now there's lots of options. Would you need / want it in the house or just for family BBQ's? If the latter is the case check out all of the portable kegerators on HBT. Or just a trash can with ice to keep them cold and picnic taps.

Good luck!

 

[BmillaTheBrewzilla]

Just reading through this thread... lots of talk about avoiding beer to lose weight. This is why we have gyms and running shoes. So we can keep drinking beer while staying sexy. Thirty minutes of push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups for me... then a fresh homebrew to hydrate.

 

[zerowatts]

I am sorry for not being clear (though you did answer a lot more for me) the comparison of kegging vs. bottling I was thinking in regards to storage pros and cons. Will one method 'keep' longer than the other?

 

[natebomb]

I'm a weekend kind of drinker, one or two through the week, ramps up on Thursday usually to 10 or so, Friday the same, then Saturday usually 12-20 beer.....typical for the summer then it slows down in the winter, family, friends, pool and bbq just goes way too well with beer!

As far as weight gain, I weight train 5-6 days a week and throw in some cardio, keeps me around the same weight all summer then I drop in the winter.