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Moving bottles with sediment
Here is a neat article about the Beer clarification process: Clarification of Beer: Advanced Brewing .
The article is about beer, but they derive a rough formula estimating it will take about 88 ...
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Moving bottles with sediment
Depends on how well settled the sediment is to begin with. The key is to keep the bottles upright so that the surface of the liquid remains in the confined space in the neck. Assuming normal flat ...
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Transporting over carbonated glass bottles
If the beer is overcarbonated, I'd just degas it. Lift the cap of each bottle, let the CO2 escape until the foam reaches the cap, let go; repeat as many times as necessary, waiting for the foam to ...
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Can transporting bottles affect the outcome of the brew?
If anything it likely helped get them carbonated faster. Assuming you let the sediment that gets stirred up by moving settle before drinking, there is no harm in moving bottles.
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Camping and Brewing
No problem on fermenter transport. Fermentation will still be going so no worries about oxidation. But I'd recommend a bucket rather than a carboy. Unbreakable.
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How to transport liquid yeast?
Liquid yeast will survive for many days, and probably weeks, outside of being refrigerated. No need to overthink this. The yeast will be just fine until you get home. Cheers.
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Transporting over carbonated glass bottles
I ended up transporting the bottles in a following set up: put bottles to a plastic bucket and filled the space beetween them with insides of an old pillow. I packed the buckets to car in a way they ...
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Is it possible to transport Star San in checked in luggage?
While inquiring with the FAA or other appropriate authorities is the only way to get a proper answer to that question, offhand my thought would be "No." Star San is a blend of phosphoric acid and ...
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I'm moving apartments in couple months. Will transporting wine demijohns mess up the fermentation?
It will be fine. Just keep it covered from light and cool. Make sure your air-lock doesn't lose it's fluid in the move.
Only concern is if your changing elevation from high to low by 2-3k feet, you ...
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I'm moving apartments in couple months. Will transporting wine demijohns mess up the fermentation?
Two things. You can delay the wine but picking and freezing the flowers. Should not effect the flavor or quality.
Second thing, a demijohn, carboy or whatever is like a giant bottle so in effect if ...
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Moving bottles with sediment
I make bottle conditioned beers all the time and have never (touch wood) had a problem with them clouding up during transportation. Unless you are hauling the over dirt tracks in the back of a truck ...
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