Hello everyone,
We recently started our homebrew adventure, whipping up a batch of apfelwein about a month ago. It is already pretty clear and should be ready to bottle sometime this weekend.
As we have never bottled before, we are completely green in the matter. We want to carb about half in beer bottles and then bottle and rack the rest in wine bottles.
To carb, I know that you need priming sugar in the form of dextrose. Do i just pitch this into the carboy and then put the must into the bottles and cap? Or do i put the sugar into the bottles? I know we need a capper, bottles, and caps, but our carboy does not have a spigot so should we use a siphon hose?
For wine bottling, I know we should probably get a bottling rod and siphon hose, corker and corks, but should we add the ingredient that gets the wine off the yeast or should we allow it to continue to ferment in the wine bottles?
Once again, we are completely new and if you could bear with us and help us through our first time it would be greatly appreciated.
-Thanks in advance, Bubba
We recently started our homebrew adventure, whipping up a batch of apfelwein about a month ago. It is already pretty clear and should be ready to bottle sometime this weekend.
As we have never bottled before, we are completely green in the matter. We want to carb about half in beer bottles and then bottle and rack the rest in wine bottles.
To carb, I know that you need priming sugar in the form of dextrose. Do i just pitch this into the carboy and then put the must into the bottles and cap? Or do i put the sugar into the bottles? I know we need a capper, bottles, and caps, but our carboy does not have a spigot so should we use a siphon hose?
For wine bottling, I know we should probably get a bottling rod and siphon hose, corker and corks, but should we add the ingredient that gets the wine off the yeast or should we allow it to continue to ferment in the wine bottles?
Once again, we are completely new and if you could bear with us and help us through our first time it would be greatly appreciated.
-Thanks in advance, Bubba
