Thread: Homebrew beer, who's doing it?

Originally Posted by kimjon

@P38 and @kiwijames how do you store you beer while its aging?

Mines been in the hot water cupboard for 2 weeks now in bottles. My kestrel reads 19.3°c when I leave it in there over night.

Do I leave the bottles in there longer, or should I move them somewhere else? Note they are contained within a large plastic container with a lid just in case they pop, so no worries about spillage...just wanna know optimum place and procedure for nz conditions as all literature on the web in Australian or US where temps vary a lot from ours.

Cheers
Kim

@kimjon

I also place the freshly bottled brews in my hot water cupboard for a couple of weeks to allow the secondary fermentation to get a good start, then I move them out to the back room of my shed and place a sack over them to exclude the light.

Light can oxidise beer in the bottle and give it an off flavour.

Then I just forget about them for a couple of months.

I have just shifted a couple of dozen cider bottles, one batch bottled December 2014 and the second bottled February 2015.

These will be drunk throughout next summer.

Cheers
Pete