sounds like its all just comfort and preference. Get the beer in the bottle however you like.
No?
A friend and I bottled our first batch last night. One of us with a bottle in one hand and the other on the spigot. Going slow to not aerate and foam up the beer, the other capping.
Yeah, sounds like a wand would be a bit easier than gauging when to close the spigot. But no right or wrong, just preference is what I am gathering here.
sounds like its all just comfort and preference. Get the beer in the bottle however you like.
No?
A friend and I bottled our first batch last night. One of us with a bottle in one hand and the other on the spigot. Going slow to not aerate and foam up the beer, the other capping.
Yeah, sounds like a wand would be a bit easier than gauging when to close the spigot. But no right or wrong, just preference is what I am gathering here.
sounds like its all just comfort and preference. Get the beer in the bottle however you like.
No?
A friend and I bottled our first batch last night. One of us with a bottle in one hand and the other on the spigot. Going slow to not aerate and foam up the beer, the other capping.
Yeah, sounds like a wand would be a bit easier than gauging when to close the spigot. But no right or wrong, just preference is what I am gathering here.
sounds like its all just comfort and preference. Get the beer in the bottle however you like.
No?
A friend and I bottled our first batch last night. One of us with a bottle in one hand and the other on the spigot. Going slow to not aerate and foam up the beer, the other capping.
Yeah, sounds like a wand would be a bit easier than gauging when to close the spigot. But no right or wrong, just preference is what I am gathering here.
good to know.
Here's another example of why did I waste money on this particular book...
Fill to 3/4" it says...
Bottling bucket with spigot it says... No mention of anything else.
Ahhh well. Can't do anything about it now. Though I gotta say its frustrating.
Here is my setup: bottling bucket + tubing + bottling wand - all done over the dish washer:
I would advise investing few $ into getting at least bottling wand that you can attach to spigot - less mess and more accurate bottling. I have bottled few times directly from spigot in cases of emergencies - like leaking kegs/etc, but I end up with way bigger mess than it already is.
With my setup I just sit on the bench and bottle away.
I dunno dude, looks like you've wasted about a half bottle there, that simply won't do.
What book?
How to brew said:The next step is filling the bottles. Place the fill tube of the bottling bucket or bottle filler at the bottom of the bottle. Fill slowly at first to prevent gurgling and keep the fill tube below the waterline to prevent aeration. Fill to about 3/4 inch from the top of the bottles.
REVVY- How important is loosely capping the beers and letting them set a bit before crimping them down? i USUALLY do this by filling a case and laying the caps on as I fill them then going back and capping them starting with the first filled....My last batch ( first with the bench capper) I filled and capped and crimped each bottle before moving to the next.....any issues?
REVVY- How important is loosely capping the beers and letting them set a bit before crimping them down? i USUALLY do this by filling a case and laying the caps on as I fill them then going back and capping them starting with the first filled....My last batch ( first with the bench capper) I filled and capped and crimped each bottle before moving to the next.....any issues?
I dunno dude, looks like you've wasted about a half bottle there, that simply won't do.
its the bloody bottling wand - if you bottle heavier brews, little valve in there tends to get sticky and starts pissing beer all over! Shaking and hitting and abusing it does not have too good effect... And you never know if the valve is closed when you pull it out. Oh, and its not a big mess for me, you should have seen how it looked when I started transferring Stout and forgot to close tap on bottling bucket
Any ideas btw? Anyone else have this problem that towards the end of bottling session, bottling wand starts to leak beer all over?
if I'm getting a bottling wand we may as well talk about which one to get. The fermtech was linked on page 1 here.
Someone else is having trouble with that one it seems.
There is a spring loaded one too.
Anyone here used both?
Preferences?
yeah I have em do that. I tell my wife they are burping themselves ( I guess they kinda are) funny to see the cap flip up nd down on its own.By letting it sit for a few minutes it helps void out any o2 in the headspace. Displaced co2 and newly created co2 will push out the top and move any o2 out of it.
I've even had some caps even pop off the bottles, which proves it's doing it.
yeah I have em do that. I tell my wife they are burping themselves ( I guess they kinda are) funny to see the cap flip up nd down on its own.
I have both the regular and spring loaded wands and do not like the spring loaded one. It takes so much pressure to activate it that when my bottling bucket gets almost empty the pressure to activate the wand tips the bucket over backwards
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