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After pitching the yeast that came with the Coopers kit, the beer sat in the primary for the full 2.5 years from Nov 2012 until April 2015.
This weekend (Saturday 5/9) will be 14 days. I will be cracking one open! I expect no to little carbonation. If there's at least some sign of fizz (a hiss at opening, something, anything!), I am going to let the rest condition longer before drinking more.
Also, I have to ask, when you were topping off the airlock for 2.5 years, were you thinking "Ach. I'll get to bottling that next weekend..."
This...
How does one acknowledge that they have beer to bottle still by going through the steps to add vodka to the airlock but never follow through with bottling it? That would have drove me nuts! But hey, to each their own. Curious to see the results just like everyone else.
This...
How does one acknowledge that they have beer to bottle still by going through the steps to add vodka to the airlock but never follow through with bottling it? That would have drove me nuts! But hey, to each their own. Curious to see the results just like everyone else.
i think i'll answer for him, as it seems he won't be returning to this thread for a few months....
i think i'll answer for him, as it seems he won't be returning to this thread for another 2.5 years....
i think i'll answer for him, as it seems he won't be returning to this thread for a few months....
i believe at one point he said he had a newborn or something. life got in the way. if you're on your own to bottle it can take a good chunk of time to bottle 5 gallons. it takes 2 minutes (depending upon how big one's house is and depending on how far away the bottle of vodka is from the fermenter) to fill up the airlock.
Having children of my own, I get it...I really do. But in 2 1/2 years he didn't have a couple hours to burn to bottle? That is just crazy. I am not saying I don't believe the guy, what reason does he have to make the story up? Its just mind blowing to me that he didn't forget that it was there, he just didn't take the time to bottle it in 2 1/2 years. Its just hard for me to grasp.
What if OP is actually foodbabe?
To all the doubters, I am super happy you have never lived a life of such stress that it kills all and every bit of motivation. I can TOTALLY understand how someone could manage to maintain something but then look at the next step as some monumental mountain that would just take too much effort.
It is a kind of stress induced depression. And I live it every day for the last 2-3 years. Still looking for a new job, but hard to come by and even harder to start my own company to just get out of the rat race.
I have done all the plumbing in every house I have lived in. It took me about a year and half to finally pull the kitchen faucet and tighten it up, I just lived with the aggravation of the swivel being loose because the next step was just some distant dream.
When someone is so stressed in life they can barely make it home, eat dinner and zone out. There is no passion or drive left, there is no 'hey that is neat", and there is definitely NO "hey I am looking forward to that". No, when you are this stressed looking forward to something is just too much work.
Not saying that is the OP's situation at all, but there are very responsible people in the world that are just too stressed to do anything 'fun'.
Wow, definitely did not intend to push any buttons here or upset anyone.
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This is in no way, shape or form an attack on the OP as you seemed to have taken it.
I will wait patiently for the result of the OP's taste test.
This was also NOT meant at an attack. Sorry if it came off that way.
Me too, this is a fun thread and I should probably pull that post. Don't want to get us derailed from a silly supportive thread.
I imagine that the OP tried to scrawl out the words, "deadly beer" with the blood that was leaking from his mouth and eyes but didn't quite make it.
Kinda what I'm thinking...wonder what happened to him.
Maybe the beer got up out the carboy and stuffed OP in? Maybe the IPA is walking around with the dude's identity?
hey OP it is aged enough crack one open and give us all some tasting note
Please
Gary_Oak can do better in one week than this guy can in 2.5 years.
Gary_Oak can do better in one week than this guy can in 2.5 years.
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