Equipment: Boil pot, jars, draft bottle and cap, racking cane, hydrometer, iodophor, sugar
Steps:
- Cold conditioned beer for ~6 hours start temp:72F terminal temp:51F
- Boil jars for 20 mins
- Cap boiled water in jars
- Put jars in water bath to cool
- Distracted, so the jars air cooled until about 100 F, then water cooled to 85 F
- Sanitize all equipment
- 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.
- Mixed with 5 tbsp water
- Measure sugar mixture volume and calculate division according to bottle conditioned bottles
- Add sugar mixture to bottles that will be bottle conditioned
- Oops again! Added sugar after filling bottle! Hopefully it doesn't explode.
- Fill bottles and cap
- Measure FG, if haven't already
- 1.006
- Add water to fermenter
- Rack yeast water to large jar
- Let yeast water settle 20 mins
- Divide top of yeast water among jars
- Record temps
- Bottle conditioning at ~72F
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