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After all of my problems with bottling, I decided to take the advice from some of the folks who so kindly submitted advice. I also spent some time reading back up on brewing basics. Sometimes in the heat of brewing bigger and better, we forget to cover the basics. Well this week was a good [...]
Since I have started doing “stuff” with my beer that I brew, I have begun to notice the need to revisit one of the more basic aspect of brewing; bottling. For me it’s a rather contentious relationship. When I got into brewing, it was to have beer on tap. Nothing more.
With my recent misadventures in [...]
Today was my day to bottle the ESB and take the final gravity. Now I say bottle because I picked up some growlers from my Brother-in-law at his eBay store:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220065864894
I wound up getting 18 of them because I wanted to start having some brew to take with me places. These worked out well with this [...]