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HOMEBREW Digest #0223
HOMEBREW Digest #223 Wed 09 August 1989
FORUM ON BEER, HOMEBREWING, AND RELATED ISSUES
Rob Gardner, Digest Coordinator
Contents:
IBC Root Beer Bottles (Alex M. Stein)
Oktoberfest beer, anyone (Russ Pencin)
IBC bottles ("FEINSTEIN")
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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 89 08:45:41 PDT
From: rutgers!retix.retix.com!alexs@hplabs.HP.COM (Alex M. Stein)
Subject: IBC Root Beer Bottles
In Digest #222, James Kolasa <jkolasa@ms.uky.edu> asks:
> has anyone used IBC Root Beer bottles? They are
> five cent returnables in some states. Will they hold up?
I used quite a few IBC bottles for my first batch. I had no
problems with capping, aging, or drinking. Highly recommended.
The only drawback about IBC bottles is that, after you spend tens
of thousands designing and printing your custom labels, it's hard
to fit them on the bottle over the giant IBC logo cut into the
glass.
Happy Bottling!
Alex Stein
alexs@retix.com
"Coffee Break's Over, Back On Your Heads!"
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Date: 8 August 1989 12:43:49 pm
From: parcplace!pencin@Sun.COM (Russ Pencin)
Subject: Oktoberfest beer, anyone
A user on our local Bulletin Board has the following request:
Fldr: Recipes Time: 21:21:51
Subj: Oktoberfest beer, anyone
From: David Smith To: All
I just got a brewing fridge and a temperature controller from Williams and I
want to try an Oktoberfest for my first lager.
BTW I'm an extract brewer (with adjuncts, of course).
In trade, here is my porter (modified from Papazian's Sparrow Hawk)
which won at this year's Santa Clara Co. Fair:
3.3 lbs John Bull dark extract
3.6 lbs light Australian dry malt
1 lb black patent malt (crushed coarsly in mortar and pestle)
2 oz whole Cascade hops
1/2 oz whole Tettnanger hops
1 oz whole Tettnanger hops (finishing)
1 pkg Edme ale yeast
Add crushed black patent to 1 1/2 gal cold water, bring to boil, boil 10
minutes and strain out malt. Add extract and dry malt and Cascade and
1/2 oz Tettnanger hops. Boil 60 minutes. Add finishing hops and boil 1
minute. Turn off heat and steep 1-2 min. more. Sparge into 3 1/2 gal.
cold water. Cool and pitch yeast. Starting gravity 1.056 at 60 F.
Finishing gravity 1.024 Bottled with 3/4 C. corn sugar boiled in 1 pint
water.
I will post any responses to the board, thanks for the help.
Russ
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Date: 8 Aug 89 17:49:00 EDT
From: "FEINSTEIN" <crf@pine.circa.ufl.edu>
Subject: IBC bottles
Hi, all!
Regarding IBC root beer bottles: I use 'em all the time, and think they're
great. I had one brew that was **OVERCARBONATED!!**, all in IBC bottles, and
only 2 or 3 of them went boom.
As to your concerns about explosions: covering your bottles with a towel
ought to do it, if they're not enclosed in a cardboard box. I've had a couple
of bottles blow while inside a cardboard case (my very first batch ever), and
all the glass was contained.
On the whole, though: relax, don't worry... well, you know the rest! :-)
Yours in Carbonation,
Cher Feinstein
Univ. of Fla.
Gainesville, FL
Temporary addresses:
INTERNET: CRF@PINE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU
BITNET: CRF@UFPINE
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End of HOMEBREW Digest #223, 08/09/89
