Saturday, 16 January 2010

Bottling chaos

Well, my plan of cask conditioning for a few weeks has gone down the pan.  I changed my mind and decided to bottle both casks today after just 3 days in the cask.  The picture shows the chaos that ensued!

Actually it didn't take very long.  9 gallons minus the ullage ended up as 67 pints bottled plus a pint sunk by myself.  All done in about 80 minutes.

This bottling form cask is very straight forward.  I use a "little bottler" connected to the cask tap.  To make things as easy as possible I brought my floor capper into the utility room.

I didn't use any priming sugar as there'll be a couple of gravity points worth left to ferment over time.  The only problem is I don't have a very good track record of giving my beers time to mature. The lure of the malty, hoppy lovliness is just too much for me.  Now where can I hide it so I don't drink it all???
Posted by Phil Robins at 20:57
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3 comments:

  1. mentaldental17 January 2010 at 19:51

    You can hide them in my garage! I won't touch them. Really. Honest.

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  2. Phil Robins17 January 2010 at 20:49

    That's such a selfless gesture Michael. Thank you! Maybe I'll just hide them here somewhere but keep my eyes shut while I do it.

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  3. Unknown17 January 2010 at 20:50

    I know a suitable location in Ash which could safely secure the bottles :)

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