hist-brewing: more newbie questions :-)

[Tom McBrayer]

The Grolsch style bottles will hold more pressure than you want (or
intend)...I know from experience.

I made a batch of copy-cat Corona style beer for some friends.  Being in a
hurry while bottling (never a good idea), I doubled the amount of DME for
carbonation in the bottling bucket.  Although no one was hurt, I did
occasionally have a cap fly off of the bottle while releasing the cap.  I
warned everyone to open the cap away from anything of value and the EXTRA
carbonation made for a male bonding party not to be believed (i.e.,
belching).  Consequently, no women cared for the batch, but my buddies loved
it.

Men + overly carbonated beer = disastorous social skills (or complete lack
of)!

Experience is a valuable teacher...Please be safe and take your time while
brewing and bottling!
Thomas 


-----Original Message-----
From: David McCarty [mailto:raille at mich.com]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 12:20 PM
To: hist-brewing at pbm.com
Subject: Re: hist-brewing: more newbie questions :-) 


At 04:38 AM 10/25/1999 -0500, Lakey, Jeremy wrote:
>hehe tell me to shut up if I get too annoying here.. 
>
>2)  Grolsch-style bottles.   Will these bottles take the pressure of a
>sparkling mead?

Yes.  They will take quite a bit of pressure.

>3)  Sparkling vs Still Mead.  Is sparkling mead any better than still, or
is
>this just a personal preference type issue.   I don't care for champagne
>over wine, but I do like my beer carbonated.   I guess the question here
is,
>is mead to be thought of as more a wine type beverage or a beer type
>beverage?
>

Do you like sparkling grape juices?  If you do then you will like sparkling
mead.

Dave M.


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