SC - well, since this seems to be a trend... (12th night menu)
kat
kat at kagan.com
Mon Dec 29 13:37:49 PST 1997
- ---Charles McCathieNevile <charlesn at sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> One of the modern tricks I find very handy is to use the
> little water airlocks you buy from brewing suppliers for
> about $1 in a sealed barrel for my primary fermentation.
> THis stops bubbling when fermentation is
> more or less complete.
Even safer / better is to fill the airlock with "spiritous
liquor" (I use the same cheap vodka that goes into my tinctures).
> The airlock also reduces the risk of something getting into
> your brew and turning it into something horrible, even if it
> takes you six months after fermentation has finished to get
> around to bottling. (I have tested this,
> purely of course for academic purposes ;)
I've been "aging in the primary" for a little over six months
on the current batch. Definitely time to decant & distribute...
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