Absolute disaster bottling day...

[Shaneoco1981]

Its easy to spend a lot of money in this hobby, but I think I'm finally at a point where I will only be buying ingredients and bottlecaps. Finally.

That's what you think... LMAO!!! Next thing you know, your buying a kegerator if you don't have one, or you will be replacing it if you do cause it broke. But here's to wishful thinking!

Cheers!

 

[ChshreCat]

-Use an autosiphon! I would have paid a $100 for one at that time.

This gives me a brilliant idea. Late night emergency LHBS service. Autosiphon? $100. Packet of yeast? $50. I'll even deliver, in town.

 

[rxp]

My wife thaniks me for bottling in the kitchen because 1) I clean it to prepare to bottle and 2) I reclean it when I finish.

Same here; works wonders. We have two young boys and generally have a lot going on, so the kitchen tends to accumulate...character. I clean from top to bottom on brew day and again on bottling day -- she loves the new hobby.

 

[Tizzomes]

Great story I'm cracking up right now on the toilet (Droid)

 

[zachary80]

At least you managed to get your full yield.

 

[beerloaf]

I was able to get a fair amount of beer out of it so that wasn't a total loss. However what it will taste like will be interesting to see. I won't even consider trying one of these for at least 2 months due to the larger bottles and high OG. I also forgot to add in the initial post that I broke the airlock and spilled the contents in when I tried to get it out of the rubber bung off the carboy. Fortunately I had vodka in it so wasn't too worried about that but did have to go get another airlock as well. It was definitely an interesting learning lesson. I tend to learn most of my lessons the hard way.

beerloaf

 

[Caboose]

My wife thaniks me for bottling in the kitchen because 1) I clean it to prepare to bottle and 2) I reclean it when I finish.

Same here, I bottled my IPA last night. When I got home from work I had forgotten we had company over the night before, so the kitchen was a mess. I already had my bottles cleaning in the dishwasher, so I had to taken them all out, fill the dishwasher back up. Hand wash everything else, clean off the counters....THEN prep all my bottling stuff. Then when I was finally done bottling by myself (thank the Lord I had Pandora playing in the background) I cleaned up all my stuff again and cleared it all back into my man cave closet.

 

[ENS]

the last time I bottled, I had a couple of pre-bottling beers in me and well, I was pretty relaxed on the homebrew. I bottle in the basement. Our basement is pretty close to a dungeon, so there is no harm down there. I use the drier, it is perfect height and kneel on the floor. Well, I usually only bottle 6 at a time, cap and then put away and then repeat. This time, I set out 50 bottles and got down to the bottom of the bottling bucket and the last few bottles. I was tipping the bucket to get out the last few drops of beer, the hose came off the spicket, the bucket came crashing down onto the bottles and knocked half of them over. There was a beer swamp. I ended up pouring from one bottle to another. I lost about 16 bottles of beer. It was very sad, but not as sad as a prior beer bottling catastrophe I had with my northern brewer inn keeper, which is one of my favorite beers I have made so far... that is another story. I need to limit the amount of relaxing on homebrew while engaged in homebrewing processes.

 

[o4_srt]

With some quick thinking, you could have used the tubing as a straw and drank as much of the liquid gold off of the floor as you could.

My passion for beer knows no bounds..,, except the floor of army barracks. While others have salvaged spilled beer off of them, that's one place I wouldn't.

 

[ENS]

I don't know about my basement floor, it might be worse than an army barracks floor.

 

[o4_srt]

That's what you think... LMAO!!! Next thing you know, your buying a kegerator if you don't have one, or you will be replacing it if you do cause it broke. But here's to wishful thinking!

Cheers!

You're right, just ordered an eBay temp controller and a sight glass from brew hardware.... BUT, one more sight glass and temp controller, and a few sheets o foam insulation to finish my fermentation chamber, THEN I will be done with equipment. Just ingredients and maintenance from then on out.

No need for a keggerator, I don't drink enough to warrant one. It's the reason I do small batches, too. I find the process of brewing just as enjoyable as drinking the end product.

 

[beerloaf]

I just tasted this beer which was a nighmare to bottle. It is absolutely amazing! Even the SWMBO loved it. Although being around 10% ABV I think she got a buzz off of the samples. She compared it to Chimay Grand Reserve. It is a similar taste with some of the same undertones for flavor. Very drinkable and it does pack a punch. I would recomend it to anyone who wants to brew an extract tripel. Recipe was from HBT database under Final Absolution Clone. I will post a pic of it as soon as I find my camera.

beerloaf

 

[beerloaf]

Here is a pic and an update. This by far is one of the tastiest beers that I have brewed. SWMBO had been drinking it like cool-aide. At nearly 10% ABV it does pack a punch.

 

[jsweet]

My wife thaniks me for bottling in the kitchen because 1) I clean it to prepare to bottle and 2) I reclean it when I finish.

+1, about the only way I can get my wife to put up with the time I spend brewing is that I always leave the kitchen super-clean afterwards.

 

[grace1760]

I just tasted this beer which was a nighmare to bottle. It is absolutely amazing! Even the SWMBO loved it. Although being around 10% ABV I think she got a buzz off of the samples. She compared it to Chimay Grand Reserve. It is a similar taste with some of the same undertones for flavor. Very drinkable and it does pack a punch. I would recomend it to anyone who wants to brew an extract tripel. Recipe was from HBT database under Final Absolution Clone. I will post a pic of it as soon as I find my camera.

beerloaf

That beer looks....awesome! Well done and congratulations. :rockin: