SC - brewing/mazing/etc

[Mike C. Baker]

- ---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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