Greetings. I just brewed a Belgian Blonde Ale using that two-step method (half of a full boil on day one, the other half the next morning). It's now bubbling away like mad in my primary, and I plan to transfer it to a secondary 5 gallon carboy a day or so after it stops bubbling.
The brew on premises/homebrew shop at which I bought the ingredients bottled right out of carboys using an auto-siphon, some tubing, and a bottling wand. This is attractive to me since I have no bottling bucket, and would rather not get one due to space contraints.
Is this normal? And difficult?
If I do this, can I just open the secondary fermenter and dump in the sugar? Then wait a while for it to mix and bottle from that? Or should I transfer it somewhere with the sugar first? Like put the sugar in my pot or other carboy, transfer there, then bottle from that?
Of just buy the tap-a-draft thing and go that route
Is this a crazy idea? Any tips?
Later,
Dave
The brew on premises/homebrew shop at which I bought the ingredients bottled right out of carboys using an auto-siphon, some tubing, and a bottling wand. This is attractive to me since I have no bottling bucket, and would rather not get one due to space contraints.
Is this normal? And difficult?
If I do this, can I just open the secondary fermenter and dump in the sugar? Then wait a while for it to mix and bottle from that? Or should I transfer it somewhere with the sugar first? Like put the sugar in my pot or other carboy, transfer there, then bottle from that?
Of just buy the tap-a-draft thing and go that route
Is this a crazy idea? Any tips?
Later,
Dave