Wolfairious
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So my dad wants to bottle more beer since the Keezer is at my house and he doesn't get as much beer from each batch because of that. :rockin:
So we have been brewing 2.5 gallon batches as of late to bottle instead of kegging. I am working on improving my bottling from a keg. Got a counter pressure set-up ready to try already. But still want to try some naturally carbonated bottling.
I usually find some nice sounding recipes that use the same dry yeast. We then brew up 2 different brews on the same day and I split (measure with a scale) the dry yeast in 2, rehydrate and pitch each half to the separate 2.5 gallon batches. Does everyone think I am pitching enough yeast? I went with 2.5 gal batches because you could split the 5 gal recipe easily and I figured you could do the same with the yeast.
So far we have done this twice (4 - 2.5 gallon batches). We are about to bottle the 1st pair on Monday. (We try to brew every other weekend). They seem to ferment fine. Airlocks bubbling away for 3 days before it slows to around a bubble a minute. I leave them for at least 14 days in the primary before bottling.
Everyone think this is a good plan?
So we have been brewing 2.5 gallon batches as of late to bottle instead of kegging. I am working on improving my bottling from a keg. Got a counter pressure set-up ready to try already. But still want to try some naturally carbonated bottling.
I usually find some nice sounding recipes that use the same dry yeast. We then brew up 2 different brews on the same day and I split (measure with a scale) the dry yeast in 2, rehydrate and pitch each half to the separate 2.5 gallon batches. Does everyone think I am pitching enough yeast? I went with 2.5 gal batches because you could split the 5 gal recipe easily and I figured you could do the same with the yeast.
So far we have done this twice (4 - 2.5 gallon batches). We are about to bottle the 1st pair on Monday. (We try to brew every other weekend). They seem to ferment fine. Airlocks bubbling away for 3 days before it slows to around a bubble a minute. I leave them for at least 14 days in the primary before bottling.
Everyone think this is a good plan?