How many kits to have on the go at one time?

[troublebrewing]

Afternoon everyone, been a while since i posted on here (last November if I remember rightly), when I had a kit on the brew, and very nice too.

Well, I did nothing brew-wise until yesterday when I put together a Muntons conkerwood ale. But doing this second brew has me wondering if maybe I could get a bit more inertia into my breewing by have a daisy-chain of brews happening so that I need never run out of yummy ale.

So, is this simply a question of buying another fermenting barrell and another keg from which to serve? If a kit takes three weeks to ferment and clear and achieve SG/is drinkable, does this mean that I would need three kits on the go at any one time to keep pace with demand at two pints per night?

Anyone got anymore thoughts on this?

TB

[fivetide]

My plan is to have one drinkable, one clearing and one in the fermenter as a start and see how I go from there.

Some of the people on here seem to have an enviable array of brew-filled kegs on tap at any given time, I'm always jealous, and the beer is sadly greener on my side...

[troublebrewing]

Yes, I suppose it's not black and white that you would have one type of ale brewing. By that ('type') I mean you might have a light and a dark ale brewing.

[tubby_shaw]

You need at least seven kegs, two primary fermenters and three secondary vessels
That way you can have on tap an ale a lager a stout and a barrel of cider and have beers in kegs ready for when the first ones are empty.
The secondary vessels should have brews in clearing waiting for the barrels to become available and the primary FV's should have a brew in them at all times or the beer police will come and get you

[troublebrewing]

You need at least seven kegs, two primary fermenters and three secondary vessels
That way you can have on tap an ale a lager a stout and a barrel of cider and have beers in kegs ready for when the first ones are empty.
The secondary vessels should have brews in clearing waiting for the barrels to become available and the primary FV's should have a brew in them at all times or the beer police will come and get you

[fivetide]

I like the cut of Tubby's jib.

His beer shed must be awesome.

I already have to say "That yeast smell and burping noise isn't me by the way" to house visitors a bit too often for my liking.

[troublebrewing]

Is burbing worse than burbling?

[tubby_shaw]

You need at least seven kegs, two primary fermenters and three secondary vessels
That way you can have on tap an ale a lager a stout and a barrel of cider and have beers in kegs ready for when the first ones are empty.
The secondary vessels should have brews in clearing waiting for the barrels to become available and the primary FV's should have a brew in them at all times or the beer police will come and get you

I must confess that the beer police visit me regularly as I only have 6 1/2 barrels/kegs(and 1 1/2 of those are empty ) and 2 secondary Fv's

[oxford brewer]

You need at least seven kegs, two primary fermenters and three secondary vessels
That way you can have on tap an ale a lager a stout and a barrel of cider and have beers in kegs ready for when the first ones are empty.
The secondary vessels should have brews in clearing waiting for the barrels to become available and the primary FV's should have a brew in them at all times or the beer police will come and get you

I must confess that the beer police visit me regularly as I only have 6 1/2 barrels/kegs(and 1 1/2 of those are empty ) and 2 secondary Fv's

ASBO for T_S(anti-social brewing order)

[Chris The Fish]

this is one ive been deliberating for a while.

I started a belgian off which i didnt realise needs at least 6 weeks to conidition, so thats in 30 of 60 bottles, my wherry is in my keg leaving me a further 30, so do i get some more botlles and do a quick kit, or be patient and put on the ambiorix?

decisions decisions!

not that i mind beer related decisions

[james_m_r]

I have 2 kegs and about 50 bottles which is just not enough imo. I would like another keg or two to enable me more choice other than just drinking one batch in it's entirety and then moving on to the next.
Actually I was at a car boot sale yesterday and saw 2 identical, decent looking kegs with co2 injectors (not sure what type). Somebody was looking at one, put it down & walked off so I was straight over only to be told that they had both just been sold for a fiver for the pair. I was pi**ed off to say the least.

[troublebrewing]

Sounds like I could easily do with one more fermenting barrel and one more keg.

[james_m_r]

You should be ok with just the one fermenting bucket for now, after all your average brew is in primary for 10 days before being transferred to keg etc. Therefor with enough kegs/bottles you can produce 40 pints every 10 days which should be sufficient unless you have a mild drinking problem.

[stevezx7r]

Well, I rapidly came to the conclusion that one fermenter and one keg is not enough but, until I've saved enough pennies from not buying pub/supermarket beer, I'm stuck with what I've got.

Still, it didn't stop me from setting two asda 5 litre water bottles away though! Ones a cider style (lager yeast with apple concentrate) the others a sort of alcopop/ale thing (ale yeast with apple and blackcurrent concentrate). Both should be ready within three weeks of setting off. Meanwhile, my Linthwaite light is getting sampled now it's kegged. Nice too.

I've been haunting car boots too, i've no idea why I bought two (very old) brass keg taps, the ones you hammer into a new barrel. I don't even have a barrel...or a hammer...Back to the beer.

Cheers.

[troublebrewing]

Therefor with enough kegs/bottles you can produce 40 pints every 10 days which should be sufficient unless you have a mild drinking problem.

Is four pints a night the same as a 'mild drinking problem'? !!! For how many of us?!