In Primary for a week

[gordoshawt]

This is the American Blonde I have in the primary for a little over week. With the advice from some of the members here, I am not going to siphon to a secondary. Hopefully this will turn out.


BTW, collecting bottles has been a lot of fun! If anyone needs any help, send me full bottles and I will return them as empties.

 

[Revvy]

Yeah I wouldn't rack it, it still has a krausen on top which means it is still fermenting. SO close that puppy up and walk away for another 3 weeks and you will have fantastic beer.

 

[BBKing]

Man a month drags when you're waiting on beer doesnt it?

 

[Revvy]

Man a month drags when you're waiting on beer doesnt it?

No, actually not, when you have a pipeline, you are used to having beers at different stages of the process, and there will be plenty of beer to be drunk in the x number of months it may take that higer grav beer to be ready to drink.

Here's an old discussion that might give you some insight. I had found in the back of my fridge a bottle of homebrew that had been in there for 3 months.

How did you manage to keep a delicious chilled beer for 3 months? I'm lucky to keep a six pack cold for 3 weeks without downing them all.

It's called having a pipeline, beers at different levels of readiness. With a pipleine and a full fridge with many choices it is easy to not have a taste for a certain beer for a while, or just not grab it from the back..this was something I wrote a few months ago, it sums up my pipeline at the time....


I leave 99% of my beers in primary for a month...then I bottle...and right now I can't get 70 degrees in my loft to save my life...so I don't expect ANY of my beers to be carbed on time....so in the interim, I buy mix sixers of various beers to try as research for the next beers I plan on brewing and to build up my bottle stock.

For Example, I brewed my Pumpkin Ale for Thanksgiving on Labor Day...figuring at 8 weeks, I MIGHT have some ready for Holloween...But they were still green, so I only brought a couple to my annuual Halloween thingy, along with a sampler of commercial pumpkins...BUT come Turkey Day the beer was fantastic, and was a hit at the holiday.

Right now this is my current inventory...

Drinking....IPA, various bottles of Oaked Smoked Brown Ale, Smoked brown ale, Poor Richard's Ale, Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde (but as a Lager,)
Avoiding....Marris Otter/Argentinian Cascade SMaSH (It sucks)
Bottle Conditioning..... Chocolate Mole Porter, Belgian Dark Strong Ale, Peach Mead
In Primary.....Schwartzbier, Vienna Lager
Bulk Aging....Mead
Lagering....Dead Guy Clone Lager

Pretty much anything still in Primary or Lagering I will not be drinking til the end of March, but more than likely April....The Mole Porter needs a minimum several more weeks as well....but the Belgian Strong is prolly going to need 3-6 months to be ready...

The Swartzbier has 3 weeks more in primary, then another month lagering, THEN 3 weeks at least in the bottles...

Some weeks I take a break from my own beers to drink a couple sixers of samplers, so I don't drink ALL my current and other ready beers before the others comes online....Plus I'm craving a couple of styles that I don't have ready (like Vienna Lager) so I will make a bottle run....I also get to try new styles to come up with new ones to brew down the line.

And I'm also probably going to brew something this weekend...don't know what yet...maybe a low abv mild that I would only leave in primary till fermentation is stopped then bottled..so hopefully in a month they will drinkable.....

But do you see...you too one day will have a pipleine....and the wait will be nothing...you will have things at various stages...

This quote from one of my friends sums it up....

The nice thing is to get to a point in your pipeline where you are glancing through your BeerSmith brew log and realize that you have a beer that you have not even tried yet and it has been in bottle over 6 weeks. This happened to me this weekend. The beer was farging delicious.

 

[gordoshawt]

I am learning patience. Will probably start another batch later on this week.

Any member have a online store that you know of? I need to get a new kit, and want to give the business to someone on here. My local store (hour away) is only open Thursday and Friday.

 

[cmoon]

I've got no problem being patient on my primary fermentation before switching to the secondary fermentation, but should I stick tightly to the schedule given for dry hopping or just weight until I do the switch? Glancing yesterday, mine looks a lot like the one pictured above--should I be at all anxious to dry hop or can I do that whenever?

 

[bull8042]

I am learning patience. Will probably start another batch later on this week.

Any member have a online store that you know of? I need to get a new kit, and want to give the business to someone on here. My local store (hour away) is only open Thursday and Friday.

Ed at www.brewmasterswarehouse.com or Forest from www.austinhomebrew.com..... in no particular order. They are my favorites.