My oatmeal stout is making me crazy. Some of them have a perfect head and carbonation, others are almost flat. I actually bought a bottling bucket with spigot to avoid this, I cooked up the sugar with a little water, added to bottling bucket, then siphoned off the black nectar into the bottling bucket with a nice swirling motion.
No dice! I'm done with bottles! I may use them to harvest yeast because SWMBO likes to keep her mason jars for her own purposes. Other than that, I'm done!
Not to mention, I crushed a guinness bottle during the capping process, and that really added to the already daunting task of bottling.
It's alright, I just picked up a tap-a-draft system from another HBT'er this morning, assuming it shows up in the mail by this weekend, my Grapefruit Pale Ale can be carbonated evenly, to maximize the grapefruit aroma of the simcoe hops and the grapefruit esters of White Labs yeast!
Vent over. Proceed about your day.
Also... to justify to SWMBO- "I don't have to pay $50 for the tap a draft, I could just spend $100 in more beer to collect the bottles and continue trashing the kitchen for 5 hours every other Sunday."
No dice! I'm done with bottles! I may use them to harvest yeast because SWMBO likes to keep her mason jars for her own purposes. Other than that, I'm done!
Not to mention, I crushed a guinness bottle during the capping process, and that really added to the already daunting task of bottling.
It's alright, I just picked up a tap-a-draft system from another HBT'er this morning, assuming it shows up in the mail by this weekend, my Grapefruit Pale Ale can be carbonated evenly, to maximize the grapefruit aroma of the simcoe hops and the grapefruit esters of White Labs yeast!
Vent over. Proceed about your day.
Also... to justify to SWMBO- "I don't have to pay $50 for the tap a draft, I could just spend $100 in more beer to collect the bottles and continue trashing the kitchen for 5 hours every other Sunday."