Patience is a Virtue

[dean_bpm]

I have just been in the shed and found a single bottle of brew that i did 3 months ago or so so naturally i drank it and it was amazing. It rivaled any commercial beer i have tasted and i cannot believe it was done with a kit (Geordie Scot Export).
This means that in future i'm going to let all my brews mature for over 2 months because all that waiting will pay off in the end.

[Aleman]

I was up in the loft over the weekend (Doing an in depth search for a HEPA filter) when I came across 6 bottles of beer. 4 are labeled VA (Victorian Ale - Basically a Muntons Old Ale with A Spraymalt addition) and two L1 (Lager - Extract Bitburger clone) That I think have been put away to save the yeast . . . Now by my reckoning the VA was made when The Old ale was one of the first of a new range brought out by Muntons, which puts it well before 97. . . . . No I haven't had the courage yet to open it

[booldawg]

Totally agree with you Dean. I'm lucky if theres more than 10 bottles that make it to the minimum date ready! I guess brewing like mad will create a rolling stock though.

As I got the Christmas decs out of the loft this evening, I stowed 4 bottles of Barley Wine up there. I'm hoping that I'll forget about them until next year - will make a pleasant surprise! The reality is they'll get necked early on in Jan when the Christmas stuff gets put back up into the loft

[booldawg]

Aug-Dec = brewing for Christmas and Jan-Jul = brewing for the bbq season. I've already explained this to SWMBO several times.

[SiHoltye]

It's so hard when beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy. The first time a beer I brewed reached maturity was a week ago. That's 10 days fermenting, 7 days 2ndry, and 5 weeks maturation. What a different animal from early stolen tastings. My only route to this happening again is to brew more, so I've upped my corni stock through Xmas prezzie requests to 6. Pretty much puts me on 19L of matured beer a week. given 6 weeks ferment to drink of a 1.040 brew.

I need 2 more corni's though for the historic IPA & Porter I have in mind! D'oh!