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Question about beer bottles
Slowpool:
--- Quote from: Dashkull on June 14, 2018, 12:50:42 AM ---I think Mac's operation is a LITTLE bigger than that. He likely does not brew in individual bottles, he makes way too much of the stuff. He probably brews elsewhere and pours it into bottles then seals it.
In any case, I dont remember anyone other than Mac and the lady bartender in Curses (who is also not human) doing it.
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Jill? Did she even make her own brew? I thought they were drinking Mac's stuff.
SerScot:
Slowpool,
--- Quote from: Slowpool on June 14, 2018, 12:38:33 AM --- Bailiff, break that man's kneecaps.
Considering Mac's stuff is neither skunky nor nasty, yet apparently is also not on tight enough to prevent casual opening, it seems there's more than a little sugar and spice in the brew. Probably something to protect it from contamination.
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I hate the "it must be magic" explanation. Why can't Mac just be an exceptional brewer? This sounds like Jim Butcher didn't know how craft brewed bottle caps worked.
Maz:
Just to clarify... EVERYONE uses individual bottles... if the beer is in a bottle :)
Whatever the beer is to be served in or stored in, the final step of brewing is done in. Cans. Bottles -12 oz, 22 oz, 16oz. 64 oz Growlers / half gallon jugs. Kegs.
So if I'm making a Keg, my final step is a keg. My primary and secondary fermenter are these GIANT (6 or 7 gallon?) glass carboys. Microbrewies use small vats the size of a room and Budweiser? Well, I imagine they just have TONS of those vats and they're even bigger. That's fine for primary and secondary fermentation. However, the final step puts pressure on the liquid. If Budweiser is making bud and the final stage is a can, the final step is done inside the can. It has to be.
For the homebrewer like me, I like to use a 32 oz glass bottle with a grolsch cap. If I know the drinking habits of my end-user and I want to save time, I can do this :) but its still a bottle... just a bigger bottle :) and grolschs are way easier to open than standard bottle caps but they're not very cost efficient on small bottles. If I'm bottling a 7 gallon batch into individual bottles, I prefer to recruit some help but I'm also not a brewer by trade like Mac. If that's all he does, he could handle it just fine.
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