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Storing equipment between brewing sessions
Hi All,
I am a new brewer that just bottled his first batch yesterday. I am pretty happy it looked like beer, smelled like beer, and tasted like flat beer. So I am thinking this may work out assuming I bottled correctly. Well now I am going to be unable to brew until march and I was wondering how you all stored your equipment between brewing sessions. Do you spray it with anything. Is there any temperature constraints, do you leave the spout of the bottling bucket in, etc. Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
As long as everything is somewhat dry I just store it as is.
I don't remove and of the valves or stuff like that from buckets and kettles.
Just do a quick cleaning before next use to knock out the dust and you are good to go.
Congratulations on your first beer! May you make many more!
After I wash all my stuff and let it air dry, I just keep it sitting around in the basement. Just make sure you wash everything on your next brew day before using it.
I would, however, recommend that you do take apart the bottling bucket for storage. I had never taken mine apart for almost a year of brewing. It eventually worked its way loose and I had a tiny leak, so I took it apart to re-assemble it, and it was all black and nasty in many nooks and crannies of the spigot. I will now always take it apart when I wash it, and put it together only when I intend to use it.
On a similar topic, I never used to remove and clean out the grommets from the lids of my fermenting buckets. Once I saw the bottling spigot grime, I took a grommet out. It, too was nasty - the lid is permanently discolored black where the grommet was. Yuck! I feel a bit uncomfortable with that, since some of those big beers have vigorous fermentation where the krausen gets all the way up to the airlock... Needless to say, I have retired my old lids and will be washing and storing grommets separately from the lids from now on.
Thank you for your comments. I did end up taking my spigot apart and when I did I could still see some of the wort. I am glad I took it apart and was able to rinse it out before it sat around for a while.
Matt
I had to put my equipment in storage last year. I just cleaned everything reall well, and will do so again when I break it out in a few weeks.....
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