Sunday, April 15, 2012
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
English Mild - Bottling
4/8/2012 - I got into a rush because we had to leave at noon to make the big shindig at Grandma's house for Easter dinner. 10 am rolled around and I thought I had enough time to bottle up my English mild. I mixed up my sanitizer and took a gravity reading - 1.006 - perfect, it's done. Time to bottle. Sanitized my clean bottles and got to it.
It went well, I am getting much better at starting siphons and not spilling beer everywhere. For both the stouts I bottled, I used coopers carb tabs instead of mixing in sugar when I bottled. Since they were both small batches, it seemed like it would be easier than figuring the amount of sugar to boil and add before I bottled. I thought for sure I had enough left to bottle the English mild. Boy was I wrong - almost 20 bottles short. Oh well, can't leave them uncovered. I capped them anyway.
4/9/2012 After returning from Easter I ran to the LHBS and grabbed some more coopers drops. There is at least one advantage of the swing top bottles I like to use. They are easy to open and close. Opened them all up, dropped in the sugar pills and closed them again. Put a little note on the bucket so I'd remember the date and what it was and carried on
It smells like beer and I'm excited about it. I'm going to take 3 or 4 and move them up close to my desk so they can carbonate more quickly. The others I'll leave in the basement and the cooler temps will help them work more slowly.
It went well, I am getting much better at starting siphons and not spilling beer everywhere. For both the stouts I bottled, I used coopers carb tabs instead of mixing in sugar when I bottled. Since they were both small batches, it seemed like it would be easier than figuring the amount of sugar to boil and add before I bottled. I thought for sure I had enough left to bottle the English mild. Boy was I wrong - almost 20 bottles short. Oh well, can't leave them uncovered. I capped them anyway.
4/9/2012 After returning from Easter I ran to the LHBS and grabbed some more coopers drops. There is at least one advantage of the swing top bottles I like to use. They are easy to open and close. Opened them all up, dropped in the sugar pills and closed them again. Put a little note on the bucket so I'd remember the date and what it was and carried on
It smells like beer and I'm excited about it. I'm going to take 3 or 4 and move them up close to my desk so they can carbonate more quickly. The others I'll leave in the basement and the cooler temps will help them work more slowly.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
March 31, Apr 1
Pretty busy couple of beer days. Bottled up my Vanilla Oatmeal Breakfast Stout. I hope it had some yeast left in it to carbonate. There wasn't much left behind in my secondary at all. This had been pitched on top of the yeast that I used for Dad's milk stout. It feremented super quick, but I left it for a week just in case.
I brewed my english dark mild and it is fermenting. I did a yeast starter this time and wow that makes things ferment quickly as well. Its been 5 days and it looks like it's ready to bottle. I'll do a sample of it this weekend and test it's gravity to verify.
I brewed my english dark mild and it is fermenting. I did a yeast starter this time and wow that makes things ferment quickly as well. Its been 5 days and it looks like it's ready to bottle. I'll do a sample of it this weekend and test it's gravity to verify.
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