Questions tagged [bottling]
The process of moving beer or wine in to bottles and sealing them for later consumption.
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What fitting do I need to carbonate a glass flip top bottle
I'm looking to make some carbonated beverages, and I purchases some flip top bottles. I'm also looking into adapting CO2 with a pressure regulator to carbonate the beverages. From what I've seen I can ...
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Large drop in specific gravity over 24 hour period
My cider brew (5 gal) has experienced a large drop in its specific gravity readings over a 24 hour period. Yesterday it was measured at 1.05 with the kit recommending bottling at 1.04 or lower. Today ...
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Best way to avoid stirring up trub while bottling/kegging from the primary?
Since I started brewing I've ALWAYS transferred to a secondary after about 2 weeks. This was how I learned and what many recipes say to do so I always did it. And I felt that this was a fantastic way ...
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How to prime and bottle?
apologies for the somewhat newbie question (I can't hide it, this is my first batch and I'm hoping to get it right)!
I have started the Bulldog Evil Dog double IPA kit and although I am still some ...
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Not quite at FG with an extract batch after two and a half weeks... Safe to bottle?
It's a simple US-05 extract batch. OG was 1.063 and I'm currently on 1.016 where projected FG was 1.012. Gravity has been stable for three days. It's also absolutely delicious so I'd gladly bottle it ...
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Stalled Fermentation to Bottling
I brewed an amber ale 4 weeks ago and the fermentation has stalled. The OG was 1.060, and a week and a half later the gravity was 1.037. I let it sit another week and a half and the gravity reached 1....
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Is this cider recipe I made ok?
The following is a cider recipe I made, slightly tweaking a previous one I had. Just curious if this will produce a drink that is safe to drink and won't explode as a bottle bomb or any other crazy ...
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Bottling hard cider
I made Hard Cider by essentially adding a packet of active dry yeast to a little less than a gallon of apple cider and some water with sugar that I boiled.
One week later (today) I boiled one cup of ...
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How to calculate and add the required amount of inverted sugar (liquid) during the bottleling phase?
How should I calculate te correct amount of priming sugar (inverted sugar) in liquid form, pretty much like a syrup for bottleling ?
I was thinking in using a cooking syringe to add it to each bottle,...
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How to bottle Hard Cider
I made hard cider this way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G25FFvCpNoQ
except I also added cranberries, a couple tablespoons of sugar, and cinnamon. I was wondering after how long it will be done ...
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how do you add yeast during bottling stage and ensure it won't burst?
I made a delicious Oktoberfest that came out flat. The lady at AHS said to add 4 grains of champagne yeast to the bottle, since the FG was 1.042 and it tasted very sweet. She said not to let it ...
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How to use priming sugar
I am about to bottle my first cider, and i have a 500g bag of priming sugar, from what i have read, i can either prime each bottle, or i can pour the sugar into the brewing vessel and stir it in if i ...
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Cider confusion
I recently made cider from my apple trees and hand pressed them and all and I am having trouble figuring everything out.
So far I have made the hard cider two different ways my first time, to test ...
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Can I lager in bottles?
I am planning to do a lager this winter, since I don't have a good way of controlling temperature, I was wondering if it is possible to bottle it with priming sugar, and then lager it? Or should I ...
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I am brewing alcoholic ginger beer. How much sugar to prime it?
I am looking for this ginger beer to be sweet, spicy and very fizzy. Something which should violate your tongue's human rights.
I have never produced a fizzy brew before so know nothing about ...
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What sugar to use when transferring to bottle or barrel
Doing a homebrew for the first time, bought a kit to do it with; figured it be a good student method of saving money :).
Anyway, its currently in the fermenting bin, and when it comes to transferring ...
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Does old fermented beer need more priming in the bottle
Hi I am going to bottle my brew tomorrow which has been left fermenting for 6 months. It is as flat as water will I need to put more priming sugar in the bottles for it to carbonat?
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When bottling, is it better to use corn sugar or saved wort?
When preparing to bottle your beer after primary fermentation, most instructions call for adding sugar or corn sugar to kick-off the second fermentation in the bottle and carbonate the beer.
I have ...
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Where can I get small glass bottles in San Francisco?
I'm looking to bottle cocktails in small glass bottles.
I've been looking online and most smaller bottles are either very expensive or have extremely pricy shipping (in most all cases, it comes to ...
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Adding Spraymalt
When adding spraymalt (instead of brewing sugar) to the filling bottle stage,
I found the first few bottles were easy as spooning the spraymalt into them,
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I have a stalled homebrew because the temp got too high, but the must is at the right place — should I bottle?
I was using a home-made heating belt (actually, a heating pad), and I forgot and left it on overnight. The next morning, the temp was 26 degrees and the fermentation had stalled. I checked the gravity ...
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Where to find clear glass beer bottles?
Can't seem to find any 12 oz clear glass beer bottles (without caps) online anywhere. Other ideas?
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Homebrewing Soda, Safety Concerns
I wanted to try making my own soda this summer, and finally got around to it 10 days ago. Here's the thing. I didn't have/use any specialized equipment. I boiled water with sugar ~15 minutes, and ...
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is 5 weeks enough for my double IPA?
I am Currently working on a double IPA with a predicted abv between 8%-9%..I am leaving it in one vessel. I was wondering if anyone thought 4 weeks in primary, then adding my dryhops and leaving for ...
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Is it Better to leave beer in secondary longer or bottle?
first question asked in homebrew.stackexchange.
I've got a pumpkin ale that I've just moved from primary to secondary (after 7 weeks). The original plan was to have it 7/7/7 (7 weeks in primary, 7 ...
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Can ring crown bottles be recapped?
Can ring crown (pull off) bottless such as these: be recapped using a table top or bench bottle capper?
EDIT: Just to be clear, I mean capping the bottle with regular caps like these, not not pull ...
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How do I remove the medicinal taste of vanilla extract in my beer?
I bought a natural vanilla extract (vanilla beans, alcohol, and water) to add to my beer at bottling time. I mixed it along with my carbing sugar and bottled. When I tried the beer for the first ...
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Beer bottling procedures (first timer)
I'll be bottling my first batch of beer next week. I'm curious about the logistics of this given the equipment I have. The 5 g batch is currently in the primary fermentation bucket. I planned to skip ...
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Beer gets mixed up when siphoning into container just before bottling
When preparing to bottle a cerveza style beer (from a kit), I moved my beer into the primary fermenter so that I could mix in some sugary water before bottling to make my beer bubbly. The beer had ...
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How long to wait to bottle after adding sulfites?
When adding sulfites to a wine, mead, or cider prior to bottling for oxidation prevention, how long should you wait after adding the sulfites before transferring to bottles? Is there a set amount of ...
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How to Calculate Priming Sugar while Bottling Lagers?
Primary Fermentation: 50*F/10*C 2 weeks
Diacetyl Rest: 65*F/18.3*C 2 weeks
Lager: 31*F/-0.5*C 4 weeks
I am reading contradictory information regarding the amount ...
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Yeast not slowing under refrigeration
I'm using Red Star champagne yeast to brew natural sodas, but I'm stuck on one issue:
After the room-temp fermentation I move the (2-liter soda) bottles to the refrigerator (38°F) but the ...
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Is there any reason to re-rack and wait another week after dry hopping before bottling?
Is there any reason to re-rack and wait another week after dry hopping before bottling? The only reason I can think of is for settling of residual dry hopped particulates. But if you don't syphon ...
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How long should a carbonated bottle be refrigerated prior to drinking?
After I bottle my beers, I leave them on a shelving system to carbonate. Instead of throwing them all into the fridge, I just leave them on the shelves and move them individually into the fridge the ...
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Anyone Know of Any Homebrewing Video Tutorial Blogs
Does anyone know of a good homebrewing blog that has video tutorials?
I've Googled it and found a bunch of video tutorial blogs, but they're not great.
Anyone know of some good ones?
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How can I get more consistent carbonation in bottles?
Some of my bottles usually turn out over carbonated, and some turn out under carbonated. Is there a good technique to get consistent carbonation? I imagine it is a function of both evenly distributed ...
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Bottling vs Kegging Questions
One thing that is very confusing to me right now is the difference between bottling and kegging, more specifically the carbonation difference between them. The first doubt of kegging arises when you ...
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Foam on my fermenting beer
My beer iam fermenting which is now 7 days old has started producing a small amount of foam/bubbles on the surface! Everything else is spot on, just wondering if this is normal so near bottling stage? ...
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Where to buy corks without grapes on them?
I'm planning to bottle my first mead and went looking for corks online, but all the suppliers I'm used to only have corks with grapes on them. Minor cosmetic consideration, I realize, but is there ...
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Is my Cider ready to bottle
ok my question is this i have bought a cider kit on the instructions it says to bottle after 7 days or when it reads 1010 on the hydrometer , my OG was 1072 and i have left it for seven days and it ...
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Carbonation gone wrong?
I was trying my first all grain brew yesterday when I realized that the beer was almost flat, which is weird because they spent about a week inside the bottle. It's a belgian golden ale and I've added ...
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How to Calculate Required Priming Wort at Bottling Time?
I would like to understand how to calculate how much priming wort I need to add at the bottling stage to reach a desired carbonation.
Desired Carbonation: 6 g/l
Extract: 17°P
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Should I prime bottles of ginger beer as finishing gravity 1027
I had a batch of ginger beer OG 1072 FG 1027. (Crabbies by the way has a FG of 1033) I primed the bottles with a 1/3 tsp and everything was fine. The last bottles 2 months later were pretty fizzy ...
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can i bottle cider at 150 sg it has been still for a month
my cider started at 190 and now is 150 and has been still for about a month, can I drink and bottle it at this time?
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First Batch Bottle Exploded
I'm in the bottling phase with my first batch of beer. Came home last night and one of the bottles had exploded.
The beer spent 7 days in the primary fermenter and hit the target gravity per the kit....
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Confectioners sugar for priming?
I have a batch of wheat beer on the go at the moment and I'm wondering which sugar to use as priming sugar? In my local shop the priming sugar they sell looks just like confectioners/powdered/icing ...
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Efficiently sterilizing bottles
I've got 50 bottles to sterilize tonight but unfortunately have an extraordinarily small sink which can only fit 4 bottles at a time. The sterilizer I have (bruclens cleaner) requires everything to ...
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How can I filter out excess cream (trub) before bottling?
I'm making a cream ale and just moved it into a new carboy for secondary fermentation. While siphoning it over, I noticed that there's a lot of solid creamy substance still in the beer. Maybe I did ...
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Can I get away with not rinsing Potassium Metabisulphite when I'm bottling?
So I was reading some posts here on the homebrew stack exchange, like I do, and I came across this question. I always use K-meta when bottling because I keep my bottles clean and all I need is to ...
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Bottling from a jockey box?
So I've kegged my last batch, was an 'imperial IPA', and will drink it in my house with some few friends. It's a borrowed 19L cornelius keg, and I think that we cannot drain it completely. Since I've ...
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