Home Brew Supplies question

[Mr. MacDougall]

Beer guys have all the luck. The mead I pitched yeast into in November might be ready for bottling by next November....

[wvpiper]

Aren't the EZ Cap bottles the same as Grolsch bottles?
I bought a case of it, and darn it had to drink it before I could use the bottles.
I don't bottle, I keg, but I use the bottles to transport and share my beer.

I had a friend who does bottle, however, comment that EZ caps may not be good for bottling as they may not seal tight enough to carbonate.

Thoughts?

Also,anyone ferment a corny keg using the krausen method? I'd like to try it, but I haven't found an easy to figure formula for how much whort to reserve

[Mr. MacDougall]

The EZ cap bottles are the same as Grolsch bottles, yes. Which ought to answer the question about carbonation. As I said earlier, I find most seal problems to be remedied by replacing the rubber gasket.

And, of course, this is not a long-term storage solution. You're not going to bottle something in these bottles and expect it to last twenty years in your cellar. No; this is for bottling and consuming in a reasonably short (say, up to a year) period.

[ChattanCat]

Anybody do a double D IPA?

[ChattanCat]

You're not going to bottle something in these bottles and expect it to last twenty years in your cellar. No; this is for bottling and consuming in a reasonably short (say, up to a year) period.

What? Year old beer? What about the born on date?

[Detroitpete]

Also,anyone ferment a corny keg using the krausen method? I'd like to try it, but I haven't found an easy to figure formula for how much whort to reserve

Maybe I'm lazy or an extreme ludite, but I have started with bottle priming with sugar instead of krausening with wort. Next batches I plan to use honey for the conditioning/carbonation.

[Detroitpete]

Anybody do a double D IPA?

Have a batch of Pale Ale ready to bottle next week. Added crushed corriander and brown sugar to pump the flavor a bit--but I'm MUCH more of a stout and porter guy.

[NewEnglander]

Anybody do a double D IPA?

I haven't yet, but it seems that the last bottle of this summer's IPA just disappeared. I plan on trying THIS RECIPE out. It's a smaller batch to experiment with.

[Mr. MacDougall]

What? Year old beer? What about the born on date?

Keep in mind that I'm a mead guy. I expect most of my mead to be drunk within a year of bottling (I bulk age it in a carboy until I'm ready to bottle it, and that bulk aging has sometimes taken up to two years, for a chocolate mead), but if I were to do something that I expected people to put in their cellars or what have you, I'd not use the bail top bottles.

Though this discussion has me considering making a couple bottles of my next batch sparkling, just to experiment with it.

[wvpiper]

The EZ cap bottles are the same as Grolsch bottles, yes. Which ought to answer the question about carbonation. As I said earlier, I find most seal problems to be remedied by replacing the rubber gasket.

And, of course, this is not a long-term storage solution. You're not going to bottle something in these bottles and expect it to last twenty years in your cellar. No; this is for bottling and consuming in a reasonably short (say, up to a year) period.

Good, I'll let my friend know. He was going to use Grolsch bottles, but he read they weren't real good for priming with