I’m a newbie wine/mead/beer maker. Been making fruit wines for a couple of year now. We have also brewed 5 batches of beer (extract with specialty grains). And I’m working on my 3rd batch of mead (which is taking a month of Sundays to ferment).
As I type, I’m drinking some homemade wine made from Welches grape concentrate. Not bad for cheap drinking wine.
We have some cream ale to bottle tomorrow and I have no idea what it’s going to taste like. I’m hoping for a “lawnmower beer”.
But, more importantly we made a breakfast stout a few weeks ago and it is ready to drink! It has coffee and chocolate in it. It came out pretty darned good! (Okay, it has a few coffee grounds in it, but these things happen). So, we will be drinking this while bottling tomorrow.
We plan to eventually start kegging our beer instead of bottling. Hubby wants to get a freezer and convert it to a “keezer”. Been looking at a small freezer at Costco. But the cost of the freezer, corney kegs, Co2 tank, and all the other bits and pieces are a bit more than we can afford right now. So we will be bottling for a while. With two of us, it doesn’t take too long to bottle (ugh, I would hate to bottle 5 gallons of beer by myself, it would take forever).
Okay, I’m thinking I need to be added to the ping list (not that I’m sure how that works). I’m mostly a lurker and this would be my 1st FR ping list.
Added to the ping list.
I hear you on the cost of kegging. It is hindering me also.
Bottling day around here is just me. I don’t mind it since I bought a spring loaded bottle filling wand no leaks or messes. Capping is still a chore for me, using a red hand capper,
Being added to the ping list is easy. I do all the work to get you pinged to the thread each week. Just sit back and wait for the ping. You will get the same red notification at the top of the page just like you got when I sent you this reply.
