Re: Bottle Day This Weekend - Questions

Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:19 pm

I don't know why you're adding vitamin C to your beer, but as to the other two:

I like to boil my priming sugar to dissolve and sanitize, while getting the gelatin that hot will turn it into jello and nullify it's fining properties. I suppose you could boil the sugar, then cool to 150 and dissolve the gelatin, but I've never done it or heard of it being done.

I think you may be trying to do too much too soon. I'm assuming you're relatively new to this process? You can make great, very clear beer with the basics, so try bottling with the priming sugar and nothing else. If you find a need add refinements like finings, etc later on if you see a need.
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Re: Bottle Day This Weekend - Questions

Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:28 pm

Thanks. I am going to skip the ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) and the geletin, and just crash cool it and bottle it up.
I feel good about it for my first brew, but we shall see. I sure am appreciative of everyone on the forum giving me these pointers.
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Re: Bottle Day This Weekend - Questions

Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:47 pm

Don't overcomplicate things.

For your first brew, this is how bottling day should go:

  • Sanitize everything you're going to use (bottles, bucket, spoon, siphon, bottle caps, bottle filler, etc.) P.S. If your kit says to boil your bottle caps, this is not good practice. Instead, sanitize them in a no-rinse sanitizer and leave them in it until you cap the bottle.
  • Boil your priming sugar (if using 4 oz of sugar, boil in 2 cups of water) for 10 minutes.
  • Transfer to your bottling bucket after putting the priming sugar in it.
  • Transfer from bottling bucket to bottle and cap.

Don't worry about crash cooling or adding anything other than the priming sugar--it's extraneous much of the time, and is absolutely unnecessary to concern yourself with in your first few batches.

As for how you keep the trub out of your bottles, it's easy: You'll have a racking cane that goes to the bottling bucket. This cane will most likely have a cap at the bottom designed so it doesn't suck up trub (the stuff at the bottom of the fermentor). Keep the top of that cap in liquid rather than trub, and not much will get in your bottling bucket. Then, you get a similar trub-avoidance from the spigot in your bottling bucket.

The furthest I'd recommend going to avoid getting particulate in your bottles is to move your fermentor to where you'll need it several hours before you do anything to it so everything that gets disturbed settles back down.
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Re: Bottle Day This Weekend - Questions

Sun Jan 31, 2010 4:20 pm

Thanks for everything, guys. I bottled today, only adding priming sugars, and it tasted good. I enjoyed a couple IPA's as I bottled.
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