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100 Bottles of Beer

OK, it’s actually 96 bottles, but who’s counting?

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Tonight I played my favorite homebrew game: de-label, clean, rinse, sanitize, and cover bottles in preparation of bottling – yeah! Actually, I got lucky, out of the 96 bottles only 12 needed to be de-labeled. Other than that it was really just going through the motions. Oh yeah, don’t you hate it when you become “smart” after years of being “stupid”? Actually, I guess it has only been a year, since we’ve been in the new house, but I figured out a way tonight to save myself some back-breaking work. Typically I would fill my coolers for soaking and stuff on the floor which meant at some point the coolers full of liquid (10-12 gallons / 80-96 pounds) had to be lifted and moved to be drained. Instead this time I set up my coolers on stools (about three feet high) and was able to just hook up a hose to the valve and open it to let gravity drain the liquid except for maybe the last two gallons. I am so smart, S-M-R-T! Anyway, it just made too much sense after I did it.

I’m pretty sure these bottles will be used this weekend to bottle the Vader and the Tripel.

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4 Responses to “100 Bottles of Beer”

  1. Garrett Says:
    January 5th, 2008 at 9:29 am

    My tripel just went on tap…. YUM! Brewed back in July 07…

  2. Garrett Says:
    January 5th, 2008 at 9:29 am

    Sorry. Make that July 06… Should not type before 10am and 2 cups of coffee…

  3. Brian Says:
    January 5th, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Nice, 18 month aging time! I sometimes am able to hold onto a couple bottles for that long, but a whole keg – – you have the patience of, . . . a patient thing. (Still on first cup of coffee ;))

  4. Garrett Says:
    January 5th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

    It’s a small guy – 2.5 gallons. And the season hasn’t been right to drink a tripel until just recently. Its pretty good – Still a bit on the sweet side, and the first couple pints have been hazey – but very tasty. Strong pear and melon flavors, which is really weird – Subdued alcohol heat, but its definitely there.

    Not my finest belgian effort, but I certainly won’t pour it down the drain.

    I had hoped to like it so much that I’d want to submit it to WotW coming up here in Feb / March, but now I don’t think so.

    You can of course sample when you come to pick up your booty from Atlanta… (or if we come that direction).

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