Thursday, May 21, 2015

Brew20 Bottling

Equipment: Small boil pot, solid stopper, 20 qt pot, water bottles with ice, draft bottle and cap, tasting bottle and cap, racking cane, tubing, hydrometer, starsan, sugar

Steps:
  1. Freeze water bottles ahead of time
  2. Cold condition beer
    1. Put ice water in 20 qt pot
    2. Boil stopper for 20 minutes
    3. Replace airlock with stopper
    4. Put fermenter in 20 qt pot and measure temp and time
      1. 69F, start at 11:55am
      2. 56F, end at 10:00pm
  3. Sanitize all equipment
  4. Made sugar mixture of 1.2 oz corn sugar and 2x by volume water
  5. Add sugar mixture to bottles that will be bottle conditioned
  6. Siphon from fermenters to bottles
    1. Measure FG from smaller bottle, if haven't already
      1. 1.008
    2. Burp bottle before capping
      1. Seems a little low on the amount of liquid
    Broke bottle cap Poured yeast cake into bottle

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