A waiting game...

[dan_olo]

It didn't taste too bad going into the bottles so I'm sure it'll be even better once its had a few weeks to mature and gets poured out again

As for bottles, I bought 15 from the homebrew shop because I was worried about not having enough. I also put a 'Wanted' ad on my local Freecycle. A guy just down the road from me turned out to be a big real ale drinker and brought round about 25 bottles which he said he'd drunk in the past week

As I said here: http://jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7483

he didn't offer to take the labels off and sterilise the bottles for me!

I would consider kegging but the problem then is serving the beer at the correct temperature. I like to put a bottle in the fridge for an hour or so before drinking so it's cold but not 'superchilled'. Don't have room in the fridge for a King Keg though

[booldawg]

Thats a good idea Dan, I didnt think of using Freecycle. I may keg next spring in time for the bbq season as the beer will get used up quicker. Bottlings ideal to keep me through the winter.

[louthepoo]

I asked the blokes at work to give me their old beer bottles and in no time i had about 70!! ask as many people as you can and they soon mount up - providing they drink real ale!

[anomalous_result]

edit: worked it out and its 4% so i take wherrys supposed to be at 4%? instead of the 4.5 or something on the box?
-matt

My wherry was 1.040 and 1.010 too so not sure.

Just done a quick back of the fag packet claculation and it turns out that taking the 'rule of thumb' to be that final gravity will be a quarter of original gravity (as Palmer says) you can say (as a rough guesstimate) that the original gravity will give you a guide to the alcohol content of the finished product. I suppose different styles ferment down differently (TC being bonkers and finishing less than 1.000 apparently) which may change it. Here's some calculations for interested parties, OG = original gravity minus 1 in this instance:

abv = (OG - FG)/7.45
= (3/4 OG)/7.45
=3/29.8 * (OG)
~0.1OG

[Doug]

Yepp my turbo surry usually ends down near the 990 mark from about 1055.

Suberb Aperatiffe before non anesthetic dental surgery.

[frutbunn]

This is why I have adopted a 3 keg system.

I tried the same sort of thing... But:

Keg one still has 15 pints in it.
Key two still has at least 5 pints in it.

Both should be empty by now. And keg three comes on Friday,

And there's nothing in primary... And keg one should be maturing for after keg three... Best laid plans...

[booldawg]

Sod the waiting game. 3 long days out of the FV and in bottles. Needs alot of clearing but tasted suprisingly good now its carbonated a bit. I drank the whole bottle which says alot I suppose. Has a very sour aftertaste but still got 3.5 weeks to go.

[booldawg]

The only 'quickening' I'm hoping for is for all that lovely beer to ready