Friday, June 3, 2011

Brew6 Bottling

Equipment: Boil pot, jars, draft bottle and cap, racking cane, hydrometer, iodophor, sugar

Steps:
  1. Cold conditioned beer for ~6 hours start temp:72F terminal temp:51F
  2. Boil jars for 20 mins 
  3. Cap boiled water in jars 
  4. Put jars in water bath to cool
    1. Distracted, so the jars air cooled until about 100 F, then water cooled to 85 F
  5. Sanitize all equipment
  6. Measure sugar according to 3 gravity pts add. At 46pts per pound per gallon, sugar needed for 1.25 gallons = ~1.25 oz or 2.5 tbsp.
    1. Mixed with 5 tbsp water
  7. Measure sugar mixture volume and calculate division according to bottle conditioned bottles
  8. Add sugar mixture to bottles that will be bottle conditioned
    1. Oops again! Added sugar after filling bottle! Hopefully it doesn't explode.
  9. Fill bottles and cap
  10. Measure FG, if haven't already
    1. 1.006
  11. Add water to fermenter 
  12. Rack yeast water to large jar 
  13. Let yeast water settle 20 mins 
  14. Divide top of yeast water among jars
  15. Record temps
    1. Bottle conditioning at ~72F

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