Hi guys,
This Sunday I bottled my first batch (and it tastes and smell great, I am having a hard time not drinking it right now). I followed the process I have seen in the How to brew beer online book (I don't remember the title but this is the one recommended here).
So I put some DME in water (maybe not enough water?), boiled it for 20 minutes, put it in my bottling bucket and syphoned the beer from fermenter into the bottling bucket.
After bottling (using the bucket tap and a bottling wand), the last bottle was only half full so I decided to drink it (and damn was I happy!!) then, I poured what was remaining in the bucket and tasted it, it was extremely sugary, which makes me think that the priming sugar did not mix with the beer so I will have under-carbonated beer.
Now, I have been told that I could safely drop some carb drops in the bottles to fix this (and I did that with 4 bottles last night) which sounds like a good idea to me but I also would like to avoid doing the same mistake next time.
I have been advised to dilute the sugar (or DME here) into more water which makes sense to me (lowering gravity will limit the risk it sits at the bottom). I have also been told to pour the priming solution on top of the beer and gently stir (I have more doubts here since it is going to aerate the beer).
So, long story short, what is your method and can you help me fix mine?
Regards,
Sam
This Sunday I bottled my first batch (and it tastes and smell great, I am having a hard time not drinking it right now). I followed the process I have seen in the How to brew beer online book (I don't remember the title but this is the one recommended here).
So I put some DME in water (maybe not enough water?), boiled it for 20 minutes, put it in my bottling bucket and syphoned the beer from fermenter into the bottling bucket.
After bottling (using the bucket tap and a bottling wand), the last bottle was only half full so I decided to drink it (and damn was I happy!!) then, I poured what was remaining in the bucket and tasted it, it was extremely sugary, which makes me think that the priming sugar did not mix with the beer so I will have under-carbonated beer.
Now, I have been told that I could safely drop some carb drops in the bottles to fix this (and I did that with 4 bottles last night) which sounds like a good idea to me but I also would like to avoid doing the same mistake next time.
I have been advised to dilute the sugar (or DME here) into more water which makes sense to me (lowering gravity will limit the risk it sits at the bottom). I have also been told to pour the priming solution on top of the beer and gently stir (I have more doubts here since it is going to aerate the beer).
So, long story short, what is your method and can you help me fix mine?
Regards,
Sam