Fillin' up the pipeline
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Fillin' up the pipeline
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....! 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!
But....! 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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Re: Fillin' up the pipeline
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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Re: Fillin' up the pipeline
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.
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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Re: Fillin' up the pipeline
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.John Sand wrote: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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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.
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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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.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.
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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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 sticksDaYooper 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).
im Leben Geduld ist eine Tugend
in Brau-es ist eine Anforderung
in life patience is a virtue
in brewing it is a requirement
You are stronger than you think you are!!!!
~~Andy Wesley 1973 -- 2013
in Brau-es ist eine Anforderung
in life patience is a virtue
in brewing it is a requirement
You are stronger than you think you are!!!!
~~Andy Wesley 1973 -- 2013
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Re: Fillin' up the pipeline
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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