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Fillin' up the pipeline

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My schedule got a little off-track last weekend. I should have bottled the Rose's Rambling Red last Sunday, but I was doing a barbecue competition. So I bottled it today, and the Raging Rincon Pale Ale, which should have been bottled today, will wait until next week. So I'll be doing 4-2-2 on both those batches.

But....! :idea: I can beef up the pipeline by bottling the smaller batch next week, but also making a fiver, instead of a small batch, since I racked the Pils to a secondary today, the primary is available. So I think I'm going to make a fiver of South Ferry Steam Beer. A good, light, tasty beer that I won't have to wait too long for (lagers just take soooo long! LOL). But my pipeline is getting pretty shallow. I've got nothing in the carbing/conditioning phase except the batch I bottled today. And the Beer Closet is looking mighty empty, and the empty bottles are piling up in the basement! Running out of homebrew is NOT an option!
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I have some catching up to do too. I was a little off brewing in August and September. And I'm going to dumping some too, the MrB Spring White "IPA" just isn't good, and another batch is infected. But I know a five gallon batch will go a long way.
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When mine gets extremely low, I do up a couple 5'rs to catch up. I've only got one LBC going right now, I'm waitin on company to fire up anudder 5'r or 2 of winter warmer-uppers, then I'll start up anudder late winter-early spring batch or 2.

Sux to have an infected batch john, I dumped one recently myself.
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Thanks Frozen. It's my own fault. I thought I could clean a spigot from a previously infected batch. Way wrong.
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John Sand wrote:Thanks Frozen. It's my own fault. I thought I could clean a spigot from a previously infected batch. Way wrong.
atleast u know what happend, I cann't for the life of me figure out what happened to my keg o wheat, I'm anal about dissenfecting when I brew/bottle. I need to review my habbits to see if I caused it.. well, I know I did, I just don't know how.
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I'm anal too but I always get those 2 or 3 summer Bret infections. It's just something that floats around in my air when the AC is on, there's not a dang thing I can do except enjoy it. Luckily I do. I never get anything else, just that. I just roll with it.

More OT, my pipeline input is slow now because I'm transitioning from the LBK to the LBCs... and I need to rearrange some shelving to make them fit. Waiting for my last LBK batch to get in the bottle, then I'll brew up some more stuff.
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mashani wrote:I'm anal too but I always get those 2 or 3 summer Bret infections. It's just something that floats around in my air when the AC is on, there's not a dang thing I can do except enjoy it.
Thanks for the reminder. Need to add that to my checklist as I always forget about the A/C and heat, and my brewing/bottling station is right under the basement duct. I keep thinking of that BEFORE I get down there and dont think about it until AFTER I am done.

Just finished bottling another quickie Centenniel Blonde and ready to bottle another quickie Lemon Wheat to get some fillers so I can start some more time consuming seasonals (out of season as always).
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DaYooper wrote: Just finished bottling another quickie Centenniel Blonde and ready to bottle another quickie Lemon Wheat to get some fillers so I can start some more time consuming seasonals (out of season as always).
Tell me about it I still have not carbed my Oktoberfest! Still sitting in secondary, looking like it is going to be a Chistmas -fest now maybe I will keg it with some vanilla beans & cinnamon sticks :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Brewing is like magazine publishing; you have to stay six months ahead. I remember an internship I did on a children's magazine for a couple of months. It was May, and we were working on stories about the Presidential Election for the November issue.
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