To Brew or not to Brew?

[Soay4700]

Hi

I was considering purchasing the Speidel Braumeister for home brewing because of it's compactness and easy of use.

BUT, my big stumbling block is with finding a suitable 20litre container for barreling before bottling. There are plenty of 5 gallon containers but not any 4.5 gallon ones other than an ex soft drinks container, cornelius keg, which I think is 23 litres.

I have spent plenty of time searching on Google and various brewing forums with no luck. I would appreciate people's comments.

I plan to brew for my own consumption so I would be trying not to brew alot. Famous last words.

Thanks
Rob.

 

[graysalchemy]

Welcome to the forum Soay

A 5 gallon fermentation bin will be fine it will only be in it for a week or so to allow the beer to drop clear. :thumb:

 

[nook6]

Hi

Welcome to the forum

Dave

 

[Soay4700]

A 5 gallon fermentation bin will be fine it will only be in it for a week or so to allow the beer to drop clear. :thumb:

Thanks graysalchemy.

The advice I was going on was from Graham Wheeler who warns of avoiding too much air getting to the beer. I plan brewing strong type beers which would need a month or more barreling. That is why I think it is important.

The first time I brewed beer it was weak and tasteless. Now that I am older, wiser and my taste buds have had time to mature, I prefer strong, dark and tasty porter style beers. How often do you find them in the local pub these days? Hence the desire to brew some myself.

Rob.

 

[Pjam]

Those office water coolers have 18.5 litre bottles :P

 

[dennisking]

Hi and welcome.

 

[graysalchemy]

A 5 gallon fermentation bin will be fine it will only be in it for a week or so to allow the beer to drop clear. :thumb:

Thanks graysalchemy.

The advice I was going on was from Graham Wheeler who warns of avoiding too much air getting to the beer. I plan brewing strong type beers which would need a month or more barreling. That is why I think it is important.

The first time I brewed beer it was weak and tasteless. Now that I am older, wiser and my taste buds have had time to mature, I prefer strong, dark and tasty porter style beers. How often do you find them in the local pub these days? Hence the desire to brew some myself.
.
Rob.

I wouldn't worry about it the beer will provide a nice dense blanket of co2 which as long as you don't disturb it will be fine. I usually only leave strong beers for 2 weeks or so in the secondary, As long as they are clear they will mature in the bottle fine given a few months. The only time I left a an 8%+ beer in an fv for 4 weeks it took 2 years to carb up properly in the bottle because the yeast which was probably a bit stressed and out of condition had mostly dropped out so as a result there was little yeast and poor quality at that.

:thumb:

 

[nobyipa]

i use these
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004 ... UTF8&psc=1

 

[Papa G]

Hi, welcome to the forum :

 

[joe1002]

Welcome to the forum :