pistolpete
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I had bottled my first batch over the weekend, and had one heck of a battle trying to keep the syphon primed and flowing from the carboy to the bottling bucket. There seemed to be alot of carbonation left in the carboy and when it was going throught hs syphon the carbonation was building up bubbles in the tubing and would eventually fill the tubing with bubbles and the syphon would loose its prime. It was bad enough that I ended up leaving a little more then a litre in the carboy cause it was geting pretty agitated and stirring up the yeast cake on the bottom trying to get the syphon primed again. Just wondering if this is normal, or if I did something wrong, any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.
Little background, was pitched begining of January, in primary for 3 weeks, then transfered to secondary and let sit until Saturday March 19th. OG was 1.056, OG when racked the first time was around 1.02, and OG when bottled was 1.005 (had been stable at 1.005 for almost 3 weeks). Used EC1118 yeast, tasted decent, pretty dry, and had a definate wine/champange taste to it, almost like a very light apple wine type flavour (like a chardonay with a slight apple taste).
Little background, was pitched begining of January, in primary for 3 weeks, then transfered to secondary and let sit until Saturday March 19th. OG was 1.056, OG when racked the first time was around 1.02, and OG when bottled was 1.005 (had been stable at 1.005 for almost 3 weeks). Used EC1118 yeast, tasted decent, pretty dry, and had a definate wine/champange taste to it, almost like a very light apple wine type flavour (like a chardonay with a slight apple taste).
