JacktheKnife
Well-Known Member
Gentlemen,
As my homebrew hoard disapears from the 'former pantry brewery',
as the work of many nights alone brewing and bottling,
getting 'Hammered' and listening to beautiful music,
'Sandymay' and I,
as I attempted to achieve 1,000 bottles of beer 'on the wall'
so to speak,
as the last of it gets drunk up,
and comes to pass,
{no pun intended}
I think back on the lessons learned.
I Achieved 517 former Bavarian bottles with Grolsch caps on-em.
'Full' of my special precious homebrew,
all at the same place and at the same time.
517 of those suckers!
I must have brewed 3,000 from mid-November till mid -May.
I was endeavoring to reach 1,000 full bottles but didn't.
If I didn't drink would be easy,
but it was a race with myself for production to outpace consumption.
To drink less so to help with the final count would be chicken-xxxx.
I didn't even set out a trapline last winter.
I was disabled 6 years ago and am still weak.
I knew I couldn't run a trapline all day and coon hunt all night like I used to, not yet.
So I concentrated on the trail rather than the trapline.
Sandy and I hunted all night every night.
I could sleep late rather than be up early and checking traps after being out all night. And as I had decided to brew as much as I could during the day,
I did. I kept all 'three primarys full' for six months.
I knew if one does 'that' everything else takes care of itself.
I substituted he brewery for the trapline during the day.
Carbonation...
As I finish off the last of each paticular batch,
{I saved a six pack or two out of each batch }
I notice some are overcarbonated.
Hmmm...
I saw on the 'recipe' the overcarbonated ones had 'more' than 3/4 cups of priming sugar,
as I was experimenting with developing a beautiful head on my Hammerbiers,
not much more, but between 3/4 and 1 cup.
I don't like the overcarbonation as I makes my gut hurt.
And as I have one batch that I forgot the priming sugar,
I mean really. I bottled the whole batch and went to bed.
The next morning I looked over at the stove and saw the priming sugar I had forgotten to add.
It isn't bad!
And it is not flat, it is just not carbonated.
It ain't bad, real clean good ale and not flat,
just never carbonated.
Hmmm????
I am going back to 3/4 cup of priming sugar.
No more and no less.
Bottled water saves lots of time as does 22 oz bottles.
Bottling in the morning if faster because I ain't real drunk yet.
Boys keep them carbouys full,
and the world will turn.
jacksknifeshop.tripod.com
As my homebrew hoard disapears from the 'former pantry brewery',
as the work of many nights alone brewing and bottling,
getting 'Hammered' and listening to beautiful music,
'Sandymay' and I,
as I attempted to achieve 1,000 bottles of beer 'on the wall'
so to speak,
as the last of it gets drunk up,
and comes to pass,
{no pun intended}
I think back on the lessons learned.
I Achieved 517 former Bavarian bottles with Grolsch caps on-em.
'Full' of my special precious homebrew,
all at the same place and at the same time.
517 of those suckers!
I must have brewed 3,000 from mid-November till mid -May.
I was endeavoring to reach 1,000 full bottles but didn't.
If I didn't drink would be easy,
but it was a race with myself for production to outpace consumption.
To drink less so to help with the final count would be chicken-xxxx.
I didn't even set out a trapline last winter.
I was disabled 6 years ago and am still weak.
I knew I couldn't run a trapline all day and coon hunt all night like I used to, not yet.
So I concentrated on the trail rather than the trapline.
Sandy and I hunted all night every night.
I could sleep late rather than be up early and checking traps after being out all night. And as I had decided to brew as much as I could during the day,
I did. I kept all 'three primarys full' for six months.
I knew if one does 'that' everything else takes care of itself.
I substituted he brewery for the trapline during the day.
Carbonation...
As I finish off the last of each paticular batch,
{I saved a six pack or two out of each batch }
I notice some are overcarbonated.
Hmmm...
I saw on the 'recipe' the overcarbonated ones had 'more' than 3/4 cups of priming sugar,
as I was experimenting with developing a beautiful head on my Hammerbiers,
not much more, but between 3/4 and 1 cup.
I don't like the overcarbonation as I makes my gut hurt.
And as I have one batch that I forgot the priming sugar,
I mean really. I bottled the whole batch and went to bed.
The next morning I looked over at the stove and saw the priming sugar I had forgotten to add.
It isn't bad!
And it is not flat, it is just not carbonated.
It ain't bad, real clean good ale and not flat,
just never carbonated.
Hmmm????
I am going back to 3/4 cup of priming sugar.
No more and no less.
Bottled water saves lots of time as does 22 oz bottles.
Bottling in the morning if faster because I ain't real drunk yet.
Boys keep them carbouys full,
and the world will turn.
jacksknifeshop.tripod.com
