My first time to have 5 full carboys at the same time :-)

Yikes! Five carboys and you have to bottle it all?

Kegs, man. Kegs.

Happy Thanksgiving

Five carboys? That's a good start, I guess....

The last time I did my bi-weekly airlock top off, I thought I owned fifteen carboys. I ended up topping off twenty...and I still had two or three empty ones.

Phil

Well, I did break one a couple of weeks ago . But "Holy Cow"! 20! On the other hand, if you are 'topping off your airlocks' every two weeks, you must not have the rapid turn around that I have. What is your turn-around time? Mine averages two weeks, and then it is bottled.

I don't do secondaries anymore; I suppose I will consider doing one for a special beer that really requires it, but I haven't done one in a LONG time and don't plan to do it any more for most of the beers I brew. As for primary, my beer typically sits in the carboy for about 2 weeks, but sometimes 3 weeks if my schedule won't allow me to get to it earlier, and sometimes just 10 days or so if I'm in a hurry (behind in my beer inventory, etc.). Rarely do I ever try to bottle in less than 10 days. On the other hand, I usually only have 2 or 3 carboys full at any given time, which makes having 5 filled a new record for me.

Cheers.

Bill Velek - PERSONAL sites =

I have yet to break a carboy and I really look forward to the day when I have to explain it to my neighbor downstairs.

As I make beer, wine and mead, I have a lot of things sitting in secondary for eight to twelve months. One or two of my meads have been sitting in glass for nearly two years.

Phil

I have yet to break a carboy or a hydrometer (probably cause I treat them as though they are glass) and I hav yet to have a bottle bomb - I attribute this to how careful I am not to upset the woman who lies naked next to me.

The few beers I make never survive 3 months of age. My meads are usually subjected to statutory rape with two exceptions. One aged for a year cause I was sending it to a competition and the other, a 2-1/2 year old Braggot, may sit in the carboy forever as I pray one day it will no longer suck.

I did make a 10 gallon IPA that lasted over a year. That was because it was about 12% ABV and I was using one glass a night every now and then instead of Ambien CR to put me to sleep.

Dick