Saturday, June 18, 2011

Cider bottling

Equipment: Boil pot, jars, bottles and caps, racking cane, bottling bucket, tubing, hydrometer, iodophor, sugar

Steps:
  1. Cold conditioned beer for ~14.5 hours start temp:74F terminal temp:35F
  2. Sanitize all equipment
    1. Equipment unsanitized between brew7 and cider
  3. Made sugar mixture of 1 tbsp and 1 tsp cane sugar and 2.5 tbsp water
  4. Measure sugar mixture volume and calculate division according to bottle conditioned bottles
  5. Add sugar mixture to bottles that will be bottle conditioned
    1. Added sugar to bottling bucket
  6. Siphoned both fermenter to bucket
  7. Bottled using bottle tube
    1. 4 12 oz bottles, 1 22 oz bottle, ~8oz left over
  8. Measure FG, if haven't already
    1. ~1.010 w/sugar
  1. Record temps
    1. Current bottle temp ~67F, room temp 75F

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