Getting ready to bottle my first IPA

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I want to bottle it in half gallon bottles, "growlers" where can I find the calculations in how much sugar I should use or does anyone have any suggestions in a first time all grain brewer. Btw I'm doing 1 gallon batches
 
You are going to want to reconsider using glass growlers to bottle.
Bad idea.... They are not designed to withstand the pressure of bottling.
Think grenade...
 
I have been bottling in growlers for a bit now. I have never had one explode at all but it does suck to get to a party with it and having the beer not carbed. This reason alone, I stopped using them. I was even using the sweet plastic caps. I had it work with many batches but also was disappointed on several occasions. It just wasn't worth it to me.
 
Sounds like a bad idea to bottle 1 gallon of beer into two bottles. Take the chance of opening it and not having carbonation or realizing that the flavor needs more time to develop.
 
Though I agree that bottling in growlers is not the best idea, an American IPA you want around 0.7 ounce of regular white table sugar per gallon of beer for priming.
 
I've always read bad idea BUT, my Brother has been bottling in 1/2 gal growlers (twist on caps) and 32oz swing tops for 2 years and he says he's never had a problem. They are all IPA and he says they all have carbed up in 2 weeks. I think he said he did 18 batches using them.
 
Wouldn't the growler I have filled at the brewery end up with about the same pressure as the one that gets bottled?

I agree that the growler would fail before a bottle during an overcarb event.

'da Kid
 
The10mmKid said:
Wouldn't the growler I have filled at the brewery end up with about the same pressure as the one that gets bottled?

I agree that the growler would fail before a bottle during an overcarb event.

'da Kid
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No, because carbonated beer out of the tap sheds off a lot of the dissolved carbonation as it's being added to the growler. When you bottle carbonate all of that pressure is contained. That said if you don't over-carbonate you will be just fine as a properly carbonated bottle conditioned beer does not put more than a few PSI's on the inner walls of the bottle.
 
I condition my Ales in 6 liter PET "pigs" made by Tap-A-Draft. Works great. Screw off the cap, screw on the tap, install a 16 gram CO2 cartridge and presto change - draft beer!
 
Go get a 12-pack of something with pry off caps, drink them, delabel them, and use those bottles to bottle your beer.
 

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