I don't have easy access to a refrigerator that's large enough to store a 6.5 gallon bucket for lagering. No interest in buying one because I only think lagers are so-so, and unlikely to be regular brews in my rotation. I had a bunch of 2-liter bottles I've used for various variations of a geto brew that I do, and thought I'd try lagering in those and placing them in my buddy's basement/bar fridge that he seldom uses. This is what that looked like. The recipe was standard, let it ferment for about 3 weeks, FG around 1.010. Siphoned directly into the bottles. Bottles left in fridge @ 42 degrees for 1 month. Pulled from fridge and 1 tablespoon of simple syrup added to each battle, then allowed to bottle condition for 3 weeks at room temp. Beer turned out pretty good, I would call it a B- brew. You can't see it in that picture but there was a great deal of trub in each bottle that just looked kinda gross, that was the only downside. As far as bottling into plastic soda bottles, I also have another custom brew I call Thy Hand. Those are 33oz bottles and had a similar problem with trub, though not as prominently as the Geto Stabulous. It was supposed to be a black amber, but turned out more like a stout... C+ beer, I'm still refining the recipe. Part of the impetus for doing these soda bottle beers is obviously the time and cap cost savings involved. I'd say it shaved about half an hour off my bottling times doing these 2 brews. Anyway, thought I'd relate the info in case others are considering doing the same thing.
Submitted October 09, 2016 at 11:31PM by bbooze http://ift.tt/2dXJSzM Homebrewing
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