dantastic01SS
Active Member
Hello brewers!
I'll try to keep this as brief as possible. I'm in the military and go home to Maine for Christmas each year. Last year I got my brother into brewing and we made a batch of flemmish sour which we planned on drinking this year. Our plan was to brew a new batch each Christmas and drink some of the previous years brew. My newest idea is to get an old whiskey barrel, drop in the pelicle from our sour, fill w/ wort and let it sit for the year. This way we can just rack off 5 gallons for bottling around Thanksgiving then fill it back up when we do our next brew. My only concern is that neither of us will be around the brew for most of the year and I know that most people like to move to oak for secondary and I'm not sure what the effects of doing primary in the barrel would be. Love that sour stuff! :rockin: Thanks for the help!
I'll try to keep this as brief as possible. I'm in the military and go home to Maine for Christmas each year. Last year I got my brother into brewing and we made a batch of flemmish sour which we planned on drinking this year. Our plan was to brew a new batch each Christmas and drink some of the previous years brew. My newest idea is to get an old whiskey barrel, drop in the pelicle from our sour, fill w/ wort and let it sit for the year. This way we can just rack off 5 gallons for bottling around Thanksgiving then fill it back up when we do our next brew. My only concern is that neither of us will be around the brew for most of the year and I know that most people like to move to oak for secondary and I'm not sure what the effects of doing primary in the barrel would be. Love that sour stuff! :rockin: Thanks for the help!