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

[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.

[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]

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?

[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

[jkane]

I have a couple bottles of 17 year old beer in a flip top bottle! Opened one last summer. Drinkable, but not tasty by any means. A group of a dozen people, and it wasn't even half drank with everyone sampling it. So it did not get better with that much age. It was an amber.

Back in the early 90's I and my brewing buddy bought Fisher Amber in flip top bottles. 22 ouncers. The beer was drinkable, and the bottles are still being used today. It was a nice way to get a few cases of bottles without buying new ones, and still have some beer to drink along the way while waiting for the batches to ferment. Yes, the Fisher Amber bottles were filled with an Amber homebrew as their first re-fill.

Grolsch is another flip top you can buy, drink, and reuse as someone else pointed out.

[ChattanCat]

Anybody do a double D IPA?

[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.