Not drinking fast enough!

[mawa]

3 weeks ago I brewed a Sam Adams Boston Ale clone and it's been sitting in primary since then. I know it's ready to bottle but, here's my problem, I don't have enough empty bottles (that explains the title, not drinking fast enough !!!!)

My question is, shoud I rack to secondary until I empty enough bottles? And if so, how long can I leave it in secondary?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[McCall St. Brewer]

Yes, put it in a secondary if it's done fermenting. You can keep it there a long time.

 

[JohnnyK68]

What was the recipe for that?

 

[McCall St. Brewer]

Tell you what-- we'll all come over and help you drink a few so you'll have some empties.

 

[mawa]

Thanks for the replies!!

JohnnyK.....i bought all the ingredients as a recipy kit at austin homwbrew (http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?cPath=178_452_43_262&products_id=1123). This was only my 3rd brew (all extreact) don't feel ready to buy the ingredients one by one, thats why i get kits.

mm......I'd love to share my brews with you guys! the problem is that i'm very far away from you....Monterrey Mexico!!!!

Happy brewing!

 

[rdwj]

...don't feel ready to buy the ingredients one by one, thats why i get kits

Kits often wind up costing less than buying the ingredients al-a-carte anyway. No reason to be in a hurry as long as you find ones you enjoy. But when you find a recipe that sounds good - the difference between what your doing now is just some measuring. No big deal!!

 

[Evan!]

Do you have any friends who drink beer (not BMC, which tends to be in cans or twistoffs)? I've got all my beer-drinking friends collecting bottles for me. I repay them in kind w/ homebrew, of course.

 

[trinitone]

Rack it to a secondary. It'll wait for you.

 

[SteveM]

Then go out and buy a case of Sam or some other micro. Drink it down and save the box and bottles.

I used to time my brewing based on when I would have enough empties, but after saving enough cases of micros, I now can brew whenever I like. Of course my wife is not always understanding of having six or seven cases of beer stacked up by the kitchen window*, but that's a small price to pay.


*Ranch house, no basement.

Edit - spelling.

 

[McCall St. Brewer]

Mexico!? I'm sure it's much nicer there than here in WI. I am soooo down there!

 

[Jester]

I have the same problem.. except mine is with kegs.. I keep needing empty kegs to put more beer in... I have been trying to bottle as much out of the kegs as I can, so they'll be open for new brews... till you can bottle, I'd definitely transfer to secondary and get it off the trub at the bottom of the fermenter...

I have been brewing for over a year now and if you keep bugging friends for there bottles, you'll have more than you can use in no time... I pay them back with a few 12 packs every now and then...

Jester

 

[5gBrewer]

For about 10-12 bucks you could buy a case of 22oz bottles. I always keep a dozen of those around just in case i run out of 12oz bottles.

But dude, seriously... have a party or something, drink some beer, have a good time, then clean them bottles!

5gB

Racking to secondary is a good plan too <wink>

 

[mawa]

Man beleive me I'd love to invite my friends over to drink MY beer but only one of them actually drinks it! All the others can't stand anything darker than a Sol or Corona (yuck)! I've tried to introduce them to new "real" beers but they are just reluctant.

Beer in Mexico is at a place like it was in the US several years ago, where you can only get the mainstream beers (cuauhtemoc and modelo breweries). A few years ago a new brewery opened (casta) and began brewing some very tasty ales but after 5 years in operation they had to sell to Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc due to lack of success. People here are just not interested in trying anything else that what they are used to drinking.

Lucky for me, visiting a friend in denver, he introduced to Fat Tire and I immediatley loved the taste. I've tried many beers after that liking some and some other not that much but the problem is that now I'm spoiled and don't like to drink what I can easily get here.

And that's why I got started in homebrewing. :rockin: :rockin: :rockin:

And getting back to the subject in hand.....i can't use the bottles from mexican beers...my bottle capper (red baron) just can't cap this bottles correctly...i guess the bottles are just a little bit narrower....

I guess i'll just have to get drunk all this weekend. HARD WORK!!!!!!

 

[5gBrewer]

I hear ya, Mawa. There are still a lot of my family members who fear my beer. "It's homemade? It's so dark! It's so beery! It doesn't have a label? Will I go blind?" {some of those questions are not true, but I can know they're thinking it}

Hell... I remember one summer when I brought over a 12 pack of Killians. They didn't know what to make of it. Now I see it at their BBQs all the time. dunno... maybe they get it for me! :cross:

Sam Adams (or is it Bass) bottles don't work with my capper. The lower lip is too shallow or something. Good luck with the drinking this weekend!!!!! I'd come over if you invited me. It's a vampire thing... uh... umm... never mind... drink your beers

5gB

 

[madrean]

hey mawa,

where in mexico are you? if you're in monterrey, i'm sure you've heard of "barrio antigua." it's the happening little bar disctrict--- i've popped in some of the bars there and found some darker beers on tap.

also, check out "tequilarte." they have YUMMY churrascos with the chimichurri sauce and all.

 

[madrean]

well, i just re-read your post and see you in fact ARE in monterrey! awesome!

man i envy you!!!

 

[mawa]

Yep, here I am in Monterrey! Very cold today (nothing compared to the northern US states bue HEY when you are used to 100's 35 F is damn cold!!!!))))

And of course I've been in the Barrio Antiguo, several times in fact! Not latley....a little 7 months old boy doesn't let me get out that often anymore!

Tequilarte I have not heard about! Now you've given me some homework!

And you are correct, you can find some darker beers over here (indio, negra modelo, XX Ambar, etc) they are ok (specially XX Amber, that's what I usually drink when I go out) but they're all lagers and and leaning more towards ales. Also there's a Microbrewery, Sierra Madre, their beer used to be pretty good, but lately...i don't know....it's seems watered down or something....have to try them again soon

 

[madrean]

there used to be this guy named flaco at tequilarte. about 3 years ago, my wife were walking around barrio antigua (why is it spelled both antigua and antiguo??) looking for some dinner. was only like 5:30, so of course, everything was dead. the FIRST place we came across was tequilarte. they had a menu outside the door and we glanced at it-- then flaco came out and started trying to convince us to come in for dinner. of course, we were skeptical, being the first restaurant on the street, but he offered us a feast for like 20 bucks. SO, we went in and he started busting out samples of really good tequila. by the end of the meal, we were very impressed, and had made a new friend. sadly, when i returned about a year later, he was gone

anyway, apparently i'm not the only one who knows of this guy b/c i found him on the web!! hard to believe..

http://www.guerillasofsoul.com/gallery/album05/Picture_011

http://www.guerillasofsoul.com/gallery/album05/Picture_069

BTW, was wondering what took you down there?

once a friend and i went to a nearby town called "parras" about 1-2 hours away (closer to Saltillo). you should check it out sometime. has the oldest winery in the Americas (1597).

 

[mawa]

I'll have to try teqularte sometime! Thanks for the tip!

It is spelled Barrio Antiguo, which means Antique Neighborhood, but because Barrio is masculine it should be spelled with an O; if you were to say, for example, Antique House, then it would be Casa Antigua.

And what brought me to Monterrey??????? I'm a 100% regiomontano, born and raised in good old Monterrey! Been living here for 34 years except for a year in nebraska, a year in LA and 3 years traveling every 2 weeks to Chicago. And i don't think i'll ever leave this city. Mine and my wife's family are here, i own a business here.....hell! I don't kow if i could live anywhere else, I'm so used to this place!!!!

It's great to hear people from outside saying nice things about your city and incredible that visitors always have lots of fun and some weekends i don't even know what to do! If you are ever around again, let me know, we can share some beers!

Regards!