LarryC
Well-Known Member
I have heard from folks on this forum and on good old Brew Strong podcasts that I should be "capping on foam" when I bottle. I guess I'm not really clear on exactly how you do that. I've brewed a couple dozen batches and I've never had a bottle that I thought went bad from oxygenation or anything else but I want to give my beer every chance to be the best it can be.
So what is the proper technique? On bottling day I clean and rinse my bottles then sanitize using StarSan in my Vetinator. Once I have pumped a few squirts into the bottle, I put it on my bottle tree to drain. They stay there until I'm ready to fill them. Once a bottle is filled, I lay a cap on top - but not crimped yet. After I get a dozen or so filled I go back and crimp the caps on those bottles and then go through the process with the next dozen.
This method seems to work OK for me but there is no foam to cap on - the StarSan foam has drained out. Should I not drain out the StarSan so much or???
So what is the proper technique? On bottling day I clean and rinse my bottles then sanitize using StarSan in my Vetinator. Once I have pumped a few squirts into the bottle, I put it on my bottle tree to drain. They stay there until I'm ready to fill them. Once a bottle is filled, I lay a cap on top - but not crimped yet. After I get a dozen or so filled I go back and crimp the caps on those bottles and then go through the process with the next dozen.
This method seems to work OK for me but there is no foam to cap on - the StarSan foam has drained out. Should I not drain out the StarSan so much or???