BeerBeerGose
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First post, been lurking for about two months. SWMBO and I love craft beers of all types. About a month ago, I realized my apartment isn't too small to brew beer.
So three weeks ago we made a Dubbel. Also, a week ago we made a stout. Now the Dubbel had been fermented in an 8gal fermenting bucket, and racked into a 5gal plastic carboy. This is the process that I'll be using till I get a house/more room to go all grain. 8gal bucket primary/5gal carboy secondary.
So yesterday evening, we went out to dinner, had a few sours/belgians/some other craft beers. Came back home excited to bottle our Dubbel. So I get everything ready(our first batch is in bottles right now, so we knew what needed to be done). I go into the closet and grab the 8gal fermenter to rack into our bottling bucket. Get halfway through racking and I'm looking at the sample in the hydrometer. SWMBO asks what the O.G. was and I look at the paper with my notes on it and realize there's only one gravity reading on it. ****. I GRABBED THE STOUT AND NOT THE DUBBEL.
So we stopped the racking and put it all back in the original stout bucket, closed it up and bottled the dubbel. Stupid mistake. I wanted to use carboys for secondary so I wouldn't mistakenly bottle a beer that wasn't ready.
Fortunately, I had been on this forum for a while and realized the stout will probably turn out fine anyways. Thought you guys could use a laugh!
So three weeks ago we made a Dubbel. Also, a week ago we made a stout. Now the Dubbel had been fermented in an 8gal fermenting bucket, and racked into a 5gal plastic carboy. This is the process that I'll be using till I get a house/more room to go all grain. 8gal bucket primary/5gal carboy secondary.
So yesterday evening, we went out to dinner, had a few sours/belgians/some other craft beers. Came back home excited to bottle our Dubbel. So I get everything ready(our first batch is in bottles right now, so we knew what needed to be done). I go into the closet and grab the 8gal fermenter to rack into our bottling bucket. Get halfway through racking and I'm looking at the sample in the hydrometer. SWMBO asks what the O.G. was and I look at the paper with my notes on it and realize there's only one gravity reading on it. ****. I GRABBED THE STOUT AND NOT THE DUBBEL.
So we stopped the racking and put it all back in the original stout bucket, closed it up and bottled the dubbel. Stupid mistake. I wanted to use carboys for secondary so I wouldn't mistakenly bottle a beer that wasn't ready.
Fortunately, I had been on this forum for a while and realized the stout will probably turn out fine anyways. Thought you guys could use a laugh!
