Now Drinking thread

accurate schmaccurate!

lol

contaminants schmontaminants!

i'm not as serious or experienced about beer making. i use syrups.

sizzurps!

You really need to get yourself a secondary fermentor, man. I would imagine you have all kinds of schmutz in your bottles. Most of the fermentation takes place in the primary, but racking it before bottling can help remove a lot of that sediment that's in there.

  On 5/24/2011 at 12:49 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/23/2011 at 9:18 PM, Braintree said:

I'd like to get some kind of chiller so I can do a proper lager. You have to let those ferment around 55F. I've thought about just letting one sit in the garage during the winter [since it doesn't get any lower than 50F, usually], but then it's the wrong time of the year for a lager.

 

room temp lager is always going to be wrong so i've stuck to ales and stouts in the past. i did make lager once but took up 3/4's of the fridge to store the barrel. lol, gf was not impressed at me removing all the fridge shelves and food.

 

have you tried bottling? seems like a lot of hassle.

She wouldn't miss that space anyway. If she's anything like any other woman I've lived with, she fills the fridge with shit she doesn't eat, and then it goes bad a few weeks later.

Anyhow, bottling is usually pretty easy, except with fruit beers. When we did a raspberry, the tube kept getting clogged, so we had to constantly waste beer by flushing out the line, then starting again. We were also drunk and knocked over a few. Then one of the bottle necks broke when I was capping it

For the strawberry blonde ale, we put a grain bag in the carboy, then added some pureed strawberries. We're hoping it allows the small bits to leak out and keeps the larger chunks, so when we bottle it, we don't have to flush the line every five bottles.

  On 5/25/2011 at 12:43 AM, Braintree said:

You really need to get yourself a secondary fermentor, man. I would imagine you have all kinds of schmutz in your bottles. Most of the fermentation takes place in the primary, but racking it before bottling can help remove a lot of that sediment that's in there.

 

  On 5/24/2011 at 12:49 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/23/2011 at 9:18 PM, Braintree said:

I'd like to get some kind of chiller so I can do a proper lager. You have to let those ferment around 55F. I've thought about just letting one sit in the garage during the winter [since it doesn't get any lower than 50F, usually], but then it's the wrong time of the year for a lager.

 

room temp lager is always going to be wrong so i've stuck to ales and stouts in the past. i did make lager once but took up 3/4's of the fridge to store the barrel. lol, gf was not impressed at me removing all the fridge shelves and food.

 

have you tried bottling? seems like a lot of hassle.

 

She wouldn't miss that space anyway. If she's anything like any other woman I've lived with, she fills the fridge with shit she doesn't eat, and then it goes bad a few weeks later.

 

Anyhow, bottling is usually pretty easy, except with fruit beers. When we did a raspberry, the tube kept getting clogged, so we had to constantly waste beer by flushing out the line, then starting again. We were also drunk and knocked over a few. Then one of the bottle necks broke when I was capping it

 

For the strawberry blonde ale, we put a grain bag in the carboy, then added some pureed strawberries. We're hoping it allows the small bits to leak out and keeps the larger chunks, so when we bottle it, we don't have to flush the line every five bottles.

strawberry blonde sounds perfect for a summer bbq. please send me a case!

'Strawberry blonde' is how I describe a pussy I want to lick to oblivion. Anyway,

The fermenter I use has its tap slightly above the bottom of the container, as well as a little slitted top hat-looking thing that stops the sediment from going into the bottles during bottling. So for now, it works out fine. I will get a secondary at some point, though. Part of the reason is space and only slowly getting into the hobby; the other is that I don't think I understand how the piping/transfer weird technique works!

hobo champers aka as diamond white cider

  On 5/25/2011 at 4:05 PM, encey said:

I don't think I understand how the piping/transfer weird technique works!

you mean when you suck on the tube and the liquid keeps on coming in your face?

  On 5/25/2011 at 4:12 PM, kaen said:

hobo champers aka as diamond white cider

keeping it classy - seems like the rest of you beardy chumps have forgotten that this is the "now drinking" thread not the "then brewing" thread.

fuck you gin sipping poof!

i will be drinking some ipa tonight with a spot of diy.

  On 5/25/2011 at 4:20 PM, keltoi said:

  On 5/25/2011 at 4:05 PM, encey said:

I don't think I understand how the piping/transfer weird technique works!

 

you mean when you suck on the tube and the liquid keeps on coming in your face?

Exacly! *posts various animated .gifs*

Really, that's the best Seattle has?

I had that shit last time I was in Seattle. Wasn't impressed.

  On 5/25/2011 at 8:00 PM, baph said:

 

Really, that's the best Seattle has?

  On 5/25/2011 at 9:26 PM, Braintree said:

I had that shit last time I was in Seattle. Wasn't impressed.

Seattle best is just starbucks.

Shit. I don't like buying anything from Starbucks. I had a good streak going.

strange and delicious.

  On 5/20/2011 at 5:44 PM, uptown devil said:

  On 5/20/2011 at 5:06 PM, keltoi said:

i want your beers!

the 'beers of the world' store by my house keeps me well supplied:

 

 

rochester ny?

vanilla coke

  On 5/28/2011 at 5:34 AM, Braintree said:

RSPKT!

i'm drinking grape kool-aid

starbucks is horrible. Never had a decent coffee from there. In all my 3-4 times of trying. Is it all marketing then ?? Or am i not drinking it right.

  On 5/28/2011 at 5:30 AM, hahathhat said:

rochester ny?

yep.

  On 5/28/2011 at 5:34 AM, Braintree said:

brass monkey that shit!