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Yeah, what you say is true. I've done some experimenting with several different brands of twist-off bottles and thus far I've had no failures, but I don't trust them for long period storage and like a lot of people have mentioned, the glass is thin, and I cringe every time I cap one and every...

I agree. I've bent and broken every rule in the book when it comes to brewing but still manage to make good beer. My method has developed to where I haven't had to sparge in the last five or so years, and I squeeze. Works for me.

I haven't delved into any NZ style beer before but I can testify that a good slug of wheat can do wonders for some beers. I use red winter wheat in my Summer Wheat Ale (ironically) and a good heap in my Southern Farmhouse Ale. Personally, I like the red wheat better than the white wheat, but...

Hey Joe. My reusable caps came today. There was so many different options for these type caps @ Amazon that it is hard to choose which one to get. Unfortunately the option I chose will not work and are probably not the same as you have. They look very similar to the ones in your picture, even...

I ordered a package of those caps from Amazon to test on a couple of twist-off bottled beers from each batch. I'm skeptical, but nothing ventured is nothing gained. I really feel there are caps out there that you can screw on to seal and be usable time and again, it's just finding them...

I spoke with a customer rep at a plant that manufactures new crown caps for twist-off's. He said many of their customers were home brewers that were successfully using their caps. He did recommend I test them with my bench capper and is sending me some samples to test. Will see what happens...

Thanks Joe P. I'll check these out. I have a few screw top bottles I've been wanting to test but like everybody else, have been reluctant. I'm sure there are other caps out there that will work, it's just finding them.

Thanks much. I knew there had to be somebody here that isn't afraid to think out of the box. Something like this is why I posted this thread. The idea came to me recently when I remembered back to the 80's when I kept several plastic caps in a kitchen drawer just to screw onto a beer I didn't...

I know some of you are laughing at me seemingly kicking a dead horse, I'm laughing too, but it seems to me that there is a cap out there somewhere, say off a medicine bottle, that will screw on a threaded beer bottle snugly. And if you put in a silicone seal, say like a Grolsch gasket or...

I don't know. That's one of the reasons I was wondering about this. Maybe the caps simply will not reseal good enough to hold up to the pressure of bottle conditioning, I don't know. I will be bottling some next week, so I'm thinking about trying one or two bottles to see what happens. I kinda...

Anyone out there figured out a way to use twist-off cap bottles successfully for bottling their homebrew? I've heard for years they cannot be used, and it's best to stay away from them, and of course I have, but now I'm wondering.....

Could be. I have no experience with lager yeasts at all so I wouldn't have a clue. I do remember drinking Stroh's on occasion and I liked it. Good beer.

You are more than welcome. Can't wait to hear how it comes out. I have flirted with trying this recipe with that San Francisco lager yeast just to compare with one made with US-05. My basement area stays around 64-66F most of the year so maybe that is possible one of these days. In the meantime...

I'm glad to see you guys hopefully take this recipe to the next level by using an appropriate lager yeast with it. I'm looking forward to hearing how your beers turn out. I always felt that the lager yeast just might turn out to be that little tweak in flavor/aroma that I seemed to always be...

Thanks very much Brooothru and 8thMan. I think you guys will like this especially if you can find Falstaff's yeast strain of that era. This recipe has taken several years of experimentation, using many hop combinations and grain combinations. This is the closest I've got thus far. Like I...

OK 8thMan, here's a 4 gallon recipe of my 1960's Falstaff Tribute: 5.6# Rahr 6 Row .5# Briess Victory Malt 1.6# Flaked Corn .8# Flaked Rice .7# Flaked Barley .4oz Cluster @ 60 min .2oz Brewer's Gold @ 20 min .2oz Hallertau Mittlefruh @ 5 min This recipe makes a really good beer that is to date...

See what Brooothru had to say about lager yeast in an earlier post this year. He seems to have knowledge about what Falstaff used.

I've got a recipe that I've been tweaking for several years now that is close to the taste of late 1960's early 1970's Falstaff. It's hard to say how close it actually is because I'm simply going by my 69 year old taste memory and I haven't actually had a real Falstaff since their demise around...

I've never done anything but bottle, and according to my records I have brewed 86 batches of beer (mostly 3 and 4 gallon batches) since I started brewing. I've only had a few bottles that I had a problem with and most of those was when I was using a hand held capper. Like a lot of the bottlers...

Anyone have any experience with Simpson's English Coffee Malt? I'm making a revision to a porter in which I'm planning to replace chocolate malt with coffee malt in order to bring in a more robust coffee flavor. I'm also replacing English medium crystal with flaked barley to remove some of the...