Even though Wednesday has been designated beer production day, I didn't get around to bottling my latest batch of porter until today. There was no floating crust on this batch, and the trub was stable and didn't get sucked into the bottling bucket. I could have gotten a tad more beer out of the bottling bucket but I was being overly cautious about the trub. That left my last bottle about half full, which I capped anyway just to see what will happen. Here are the steps I took, without last time's extended commentary.
-1) Locate 48 bottles and clean off any labels
0) Relax and have a homebrew (or sample some new beers)
1) Wash bottles in slightly soapy water, rinse, and drain
2) Mix 6 gallons of sanitizer in the bottling bucket
3) Force sanitizer through the autosiphon
4) Fill bottles with sanitizer
5) Rinse out bottling bucket and autosiphon
6) Pour sanitizer out of bottles and shake bottles dry
7) Boil 3/4 cup of sugar for a few minutes and pour into bottling bucket
8) Transfer beer from fermenting bucket to bottling bucket with autosiphon
9) Boil caps for a minute
10) Bottle beer
11) Cap beer bottles
12) Place beer back where it went through primary fermentation
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Bottling a Batch: Condensed Version
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