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Update: I just tryed a bottle of this last night and it's not bad after 2 1/2 months in the bottle .
It still is a bit hoppy for my likeing but I reckon another month or two and it'll be a beaut !

The moral of this story is never through away beer that you think is bad

I shared a PET bottle of Brewcraft Dutch lager with my old man last weekend .
According to my notes it was 6 months old and very drinkable and retained a good head .

I always bottle into PETs bar 3 glass bottles for vintaging from every batch I brew .

And yes , vintaging is a real word :wink: :lol:

I have a dozen Speight's Old Dark bottles in the beer fridge downstairs , I wonder if I poured a little over some icecream what it would taste like .

Well keeping it for a while wouldn't hurt , storage and bottles aren't a problem , but I wouldn't mind knowing if I could replace this with some of the water when making a brew .

And this is good advice for those sudden friends who pop over now that you make HB , whom normaly you wouldn't piss in ...

I am now the (un)proud owner of my first bad brew , not due to infection (I'm pretty sure) but of not knowing how to use a product .
I got a NZ style draught kit and bought a Brewcraft beer enhancer .
I read the instructions on the packet and it just said use inplace of dextrose , so I did , just ...

Sounds to me that they weren't ready to be bottled maybe a bit more time in the fermenter was needed .
I've never made cider or ginger beer but I do bottle into PETs .
When I prime I go by the rule of 1 tsp per 750mls-2tsp per 1.5-3 tsp per 2.25 and have never had any trouble .

I bottle into PETs , haven't had any problems with them .
I agree that it's only for short-term storage (less than a year)
I do bottle in glass four 745ml glass bottles every batch I make so I can try them after a few years .

Good thread Chris , things that I have read here since joining and have put into use are now coming into fruit .
You've certainly made a good list here .

Chris wrote:The question is... how long until dogger mentions honey?

I got about halfway reading through this and thought excactly that ! !

I've got five 30ltr plastic carboys going at the moment and two fifty ltr sitting idle .
The only reason the two 50's are idle is because where I make the brew to where I let it sit is too great a distance to carry such a heavy barrel .
Something I'm going to have to work on this year

I'd love to answer this Q , but I don't even know what molasses are
I guess it's possible though .

The 17 YO brew had BA written , which I presume meant brown ale .
I don't know what the recipie was , but it was a full-on malt beer .
After I'd poured it there was a very thick tar-like sediment at the bottom of the bottle .
Absolutely delicious and something I'd like to aspire to in my own brewing ...

Should be fine .
I tried some that was 17 years old a month or so back , bloody beutiful .
As long as the caps aren't rusty should be good .


Cheers
Skoti

If you're running windows XP , there's a plug-in you can get from here , halfway down the page on the right you'll see the d/load link
To resize a pic just right-click over the image and select resize picture .
You get 3 different sizes to choose from .
Hope this helps .

Merry Xmas to all , hope all your brews turn out well ! !

When I bottle , the first bottle is always the top-up bottle and contains no primer .
If any of the bottles I'm filling look to overflow , I start a new bottle and leave the other to stand .
Then I just top them up once it's settled .

The fermenter has been open for a year, so whatever fell in was able to do what it wanted to do.

Sounds ..ummm....yummy?

Thanks for that Oliver .
It's only the second brew I've made in that barrel (#4) and I had airlock issues with the first brew too and that turned out fine .
I'm not going to worry about it , just resort to actually using the hydrometer
when brewing in this particular barrel .

Thanks for your replies .
I did a bit of research using the search function here and came to the conclusion that I ought not to trust the airlock .
At least this'll be the case with this particular barrel .

Well I just had a look and brew temp is 21 deg the same as the other two brews I have going at the moment .
Tempreture in the garage is 18 deg .
Hmmmm strange .

I put a brew down on Friday and within a few hours it satarted bubbling away quite happily .
About lunchtime today (monday) I noticed it had equalised and when I had a look at midnight it had started sucking back .
As far as I know there's no leaks in the barrel and if there were I'd expect it to ...