What are you drinking tonight 2020.

[Fuzzy Growler]

Today's beer advent... Red elephant beer cellar x verdant collab

 

[samale]

Really interesting advent beer today.
Barrel aged imperial rye from Dot Brew @ 9.2%
Oddly rye isn't listed in the ingredients but it has a very drinkable sweet and sour thing going on, with a faint white wine character.
One of those beers I can't stop sipping trying to fathom.
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Not sure if it was already asked but where did you get the advent calendar

 

[Pennine]

I think it should be my garden, I won’t have as far to walk then when I fall into my bed!

Room for tents?

 

[strange-steve]

This is one of the 4 year old bottles of my (aptly named) bière de garde I found the other day. It's also aged quite well, nice and malty with a little apple/pear fruitiness. And the alcohol flavour has finally smoothed out!

 

[Clint]

Is that not illegal in Wales?

Only without wellies.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Only without wellies.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Room for tents?

Barely, but there is a fairly large green area at the top of our drive- not sure the neighbours would put up with it though

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Another bottle of “Goofie”. I’ve not opened the tap on this one yet but I bottled a few that wouldn’t fit in the cornie.

 

[Pennine]

Another bottle of “Goofie”. I’ve not opened the tap on this one yet but I bottled a few that wouldn’t fit in the cornie.

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Are you waiting so you don’t have a bad opinion about young beer? Or so you have some left when it’s really good? I love sampling early off my kegs.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Are you waiting so you don’t have a bad opinion about young beer? Or so you have some left when it’s really good? I love sampling early off my kegs.

Because I have a few bottled and I often find that bottles are a little ahead of the keg in terms of conditioning. I’ll tuck into the keg by the weekend.

...then the bottles of my Belgian Tripel should be ready to sample .

 

[SamBrewster]

Because I have a few bottled and I often find that bottles are a little ahead of the keg in terms of conditioning. I’ll tuck into the keg by the weekend.

...then the bottles of my Belgian Tripel should be ready to sample .

Interesting, I find the opposite by some weeks.
Just making sure the sloe gin is ready to bottle

Not too sweet, perfect.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Interesting, I find the opposite by some weeks.

I don’t prime, I force carbonate. This is how I was able to enter the lager comp with a beer that was one week out of the fermenter.

 

[SamBrewster]

I don’t prime, I force carbonate. This is how I was able to enter the lager comp with a beer that was one week out of the fermenter.

How do you bottle? I was covered head to toe last week when I tried to bottle from a PB...

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

How do you bottle? I was covered head to toe last week when I tried to bottle from a PB...

If I’m bottling from the fermenter I syphon into a jug from the top of the fermenter where it’s already most clear. If I’m bottling from keg I again use a jug and fill the bottles from that.

 

[SamBrewster]

So maybe I asked the wrong question - how do you force carb a bottle? Or is it carb the keg, then jug into bottle with sufficient dissolved CO2 to protect once capped?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

So maybe I asked the wrong question - how do you force carb a bottle? Or is it carb the keg, then jug into bottle with sufficient dissolved CO2 to protect once capped?

Ah! First you need to know this can only be done with PET bottles.

I’ve fitted some bottle tops with a Schrader valve like this.


In my brew-shed I’ve set up a Schrader chuck - the bit that mates with the valve - the line with the red tape round it in this picture


This “red” line is set at 50-60psi and I use it to pressurise the bottles. I then shake them vigorously, they go soft where the beer absorbs the CO2 immediately. I repeat the process two or three times.

The bottles then go in the freezer for about 50 minutes. The bottles are then vigorously shaken and re-pressurised, then back in the freezer for 20 minutes. At this point the beer is at the point of freezing and you can quickly replace the cap with a regular cap with very little loss of CO2.

Your bottle is now pressurised and your beer is carbonated.

 

[SamBrewster]

Your bottle is now pressurised and your beer is carbonated.

Got it, I need to retire to give me the time

 

[dave_77]

First time trying this lost & Grounded Farmhouse Ale. Tasty, you can taste the corriander, orange peel is very subtle. Nice and crisp and bitter pale/

saison.good beer

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Got it, I need to retire to give me the time

I only do this for the 4-8 bottles from my fermenter that don’t fit in the cornie or if there’s a competition coming up quickly. It’s a good option when needed.

 

[Leon103]

Just one for me tonight. A wonderful hallertau blanc pale ale from @dan125
Fantastic tasting beer, shame he only sent 1.