Briggery16
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Im bottling for the first time tomorrow. I just wanna know what some of you did wrong so that maybe I won't..I've removed all labels but am yet to sanitize. Tips? Stories?
Didn't mix the Priming sugar with boiling water = very uneven carbing
Please explain.
Problem is priming sugar or mixing it with boiling water?
My 1st batch is fermenting and I am preparing for bottling in couple of weeks.
I was thinking to use dextrose or cane sugar, boil them and put them into racking carboy, and after that add beer to mix it.
The problem is he didn't mix the priming sugar with water and boil it. If you boil the priming sugar, and put it in the bucket before hand, it get mixed very well with the siphoning of the beer from the fermenter to the bottling bucket.
Didn't mix the Priming sugar with boiling water = very uneven carbing
Bottling for the first time makes a HUGE mess - or at least it did in my case. You'll get your technique down with practice, but be prepared to make a mess.
And if SWMBO is the type who gets upset if you make a mess in the kitchen, flowers are nice ...
I always stir my beer before bottling. Just siphoning on top of your sugar water solution can still lead to uneven carbonating. If you use a sanitized spoon and don't splash you're not going to aerate the beer or infect it.
Hockeyhunter99 said:watch the bottling wand stopper. the little thing at the tip of the wand. when i started, it is suppose to shut with the pressure of the beer in the tube. mine got stuck open and when i removed the wand, it sprayed all over the place.
Please explain.
Problem is priming sugar or mixing it with boiling water?
My 1st batch is fermenting and I am preparing for bottling in couple of weeks.
I was thinking to use dextrose or cane sugar, boil them and put them into racking carboy, and after that add beer to mix it.
At this point, I'm not so much worried about oxidation, but the freaking oxiclean residue in my bottles. I let them sit for about 12 hours, and now maybe a 1/4 of them have white residue on the inner lip....i've heard vinegar, but i'm not sure how to go about it. Right now, I have all my bottles in the sanitation cycle of my dishwasher. If that doesn't take care of the residue, do I have to start from square one or just rinse with vinegarwater and bottle?
I highly highly HIGHLY recommend that you read Revvy's bottling thread. I basically made an identical set up in my kitchen - sitting on a stool where all I had to do was swivel from one side to the other to lift the bottle out of the sanitizer solution, onto a towel right next to the bottling bucket, up to the wand, and then onto the counter for capping. The whole process only took me a couple of hours my first time and I had no spills or anything - carbonation across the batch was perfect. I'm a big fan of reading a ton of stuff on things before I try to do them myself - it just feels like you've done it a bunch of times before if you soak up a bunch of knowledge on the activity beforehand.
This is such utter nonesence.
I have found that the bottling wand displaces enough liquid that filling the bottles to the rim and then removing the wand puts them exactly where they should be.
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