Saturday, June 18, 2011

Brew7 Bottling

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

Steps:
  1. Cold conditioned beer for ~14.5 hours start temp:74F terminal temp:35F
    1. Airlock water potentially sucked into fermenter due to vacuum
  2. Boil jars for 20 mins 
  3. Cap boiled water in jars 
  4. Put jars in water bath to cool
    1. Ran out to get water for next brew batch
  5. Sanitize all equipment
  6. Made sugar mixture of 2 tbsp cane sugar and 4 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. Added sugar to bottling bucket
  9. Siphoned both fermenters to bucket
  10. Siphoned from bucket to bottle
    1. Not very much settling time in bucket, so not sure if siphoning to bucket was a worthwhile step
  11. Measure FG, if haven't already
    1. ~1.013 w/sugar
    2. Forgot and made clumsy measurement
    3. Burped bottle and some beer poured out
  12. Add water to fermenter 
  13. Rack yeast water to large jar 

  1. Record temps
    1. Current bottle temp ~64F room temp 75F

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