Equipment: bottles (1L swing top, 1L plastic, 0.5L plastic), caps (2 carbonaters), racking cane, bottle filler, hydrometer, iodophor, sugar (cane)
Steps:
1. Sanitize all equipment
Steps:
1. Sanitize all equipment
10:42pm ~1ml per liter bottle
10:47pm Sanitizing
10:57pm After a long ordeal with the Ziploc funnel, sanitizing liquid is in bottling tube
2. Given the ratio 160 ml sugar per 480 ml water and for 2 pints beer, boil 24 ml water and add 8 ml sugar
5 tsps water
1 heaping 1/2 T sugar
After 2:38 in microwave, the sugar mixture turned to syrup
3. Measure sugar mixture volume and calculate division according to bottle conditioned bottles
(Comment: Only 1 bottle conditioned bottle. No division necessary)
4. Add sugar mixture to bottles that will be bottle conditioned
Comment: About half of the syrup was added
5. Start siphon
11:05 pm: Bled sanitizing solution into 1L plastic bottle. Filled swing top almost to top. Poor siphon/some aeration. Siphon stopped before fully filling bottle.
11:15pm Reloaded racking cane.
6. Fill bottles and cap
1L and 1/2L bottles went more smoothly.
7. Measure FG, if haven't already
11:27 Camera fail. FG: 1.013 (1 1/2 notches below red line)
12:29am: Carbonated and chilled
Prost! 8-)
