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02-08-2009, 12:37 AM
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Question about priming sugar?
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I'm brewing a hefeweizen right now and I reached my FG and I'm ready to bottle. My beer has been in the primary fermenter for 3 weeks now. I have to to add 4.1 ounces of dextrose to my beer. Should I rack it into my PET carboy and wash my primary out and then re-rack it into my primary bucket or should I just add the dextrose into the primary bucket with the trub on the sides right now?
On a sad note my primary lid cracked getting it off just now.
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02-08-2009, 12:42 AM
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Drink your beer!
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Don't just add the sugar to the bucket! You'll cause all the trub and all the stuff to be resuspended, after you just waited three weeks for it to settle out. I take it you don't have a "bottling bucket"? That's ideal. You rack from the fermenter into the priming solution into the bottling bucket. I would hate to sanitize a carboy, rack the beer, clean out the bucket, sanitize, rack into that, and bottle. I don't know of any other way, unless you go buy a bottling bucket.
For your next batch, you may want to use the carboy for a fermenter and your bucket for a, um, bucket.
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02-08-2009, 02:14 AM
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What about just boiling the priming sugar, putting in the carboy, racking on top of it (and just imagine it is a BOTTLING carboy  ).... then rack into your bottles...
Why do you have to bottle out of a bucket?
Maybe a little tricky to get the last bit, but [shrugs]... |
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02-08-2009, 02:18 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chefmike
What about just boiling the priming sugar, putting in the carboy, racking on top of it (and just imagine it is a BOTTLING carboy ).... then rack into your bottles...
Why do you have to bottle out of a bucket?
Maybe a little tricky to get the last bit, but [shrugs]... |
i agree. and i wouldn't see any problem with myself personally doing that (and have). my auto siphon (and i'm imagining all others) can extend enough to reach the bottom of my carboy. |
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02-08-2009, 02:25 AM
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When I first started brewing I would use my brew pot as a bottling bucket - just bring a gallon and a half of water to a boil first with the lid on to sanitize it.
Never had any problems...
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02-08-2009, 02:48 AM
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Laughing... that would be a good post in the "You know you are a homebrewer when..." thread
You have used most of the items in the house in your brew process at one time or another subsituting for that piece of equipment that you will buy NEXT time you go to the LHBS, but then you buy ingredients instead, because really that system with the hairdryer, the pasta strainer and the coffee maker worked fine....
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02-08-2009, 03:05 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by chefmike
Laughing... that would be a good post in the "You know you are a homebrewer when..." thread
You have used most of the items in the house in your brew process at one time or another subsituting for that piece of equipment that you will buy NEXT time you go to the LHBS, but then you buy ingredients instead, because really that system with the hairdryer, the pasta strainer and the coffee maker worked fine....
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Yup, If I ever get back to Michigan I'll have to take some pics of my buddy's brew pot. He took a used stainless steel drop sink and welded a plate over the drain hole, some handles on the top and made a lid out of some SS sheeting he got from work. The damn thing fits over all four burners on his stove...
From humble beginnings we have all evolved... |
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02-08-2009, 03:12 AM
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Evolved?
I was just thinking "there is a stainless sink out behind that one building at work... 4 burners, that is brilliant!"
I guess I am too cheap to evolve!
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02-08-2009, 03:15 AM
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It's true that you don't "need" a bottling bucket. But the spigot sure makes it easier and the beer should be racked off the trub. You don't really need a wort chiller, or even a brewpot either.
My point was simply that the fermenter is the carboy- the bucket with the spigot is the bottling bucket.
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02-08-2009, 03:25 AM
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Laughing... amazingly I think I see now. My bottling bucket does not have a spigot... I just siphon... so any container I can rack onto the priming sugar seems good in my mind.
And definitely rack OFF the trub unto the sugar.
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