JeffoC6
Well-Known Member
Hey guys...Bottling for the first time tomorrow! Here's my plan...Please critique it if need be:
Tonight before bed:
-Fill 3 gallon bucket up with 3 gallons of tap water and 3 tablespoons of B-Brite and stir to combine.
-Add my bottles (recently purchased from the LHBS) to the bucket and let soak overnight.
Tomorrow, an hour or so before bottling:
-Remove bottles from B-Brite solution and rinse with tap water.
-Add some StarSan and distilled water solution to each bottle.
At bottling time
-Using this calculator: http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html determine the amount of corn sugar to use.
Example: Brown Ale- Northern English Brown Ale
-Boil amount of priming sugar calculated in a little bit of water (enough to dissolve the sugar).
-Pour into cleaned, sanitized bottling jug.
-Rack from primary to the cleaned/sanitized "bottling jug."
-Take each bottle and dump StarSan solution...Don't let it dry out.
-Start auto-siphon and siphon from primary to bottling jug, over the priming sugar solution. Once filled, swirl very gently.
-Fill bottles with bottling wand. Fill to the top. When I remove bottling wand, head space will be adequate due to the displacement from the wand.
-Cap with caps soaking in StarSan.
Am I good?
Tonight before bed:
-Fill 3 gallon bucket up with 3 gallons of tap water and 3 tablespoons of B-Brite and stir to combine.
-Add my bottles (recently purchased from the LHBS) to the bucket and let soak overnight.
Tomorrow, an hour or so before bottling:
-Remove bottles from B-Brite solution and rinse with tap water.
-Add some StarSan and distilled water solution to each bottle.
At bottling time
-Using this calculator: http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/priming.html determine the amount of corn sugar to use.
Example: Brown Ale- Northern English Brown Ale
-Boil amount of priming sugar calculated in a little bit of water (enough to dissolve the sugar).
-Pour into cleaned, sanitized bottling jug.
-Rack from primary to the cleaned/sanitized "bottling jug."
-Take each bottle and dump StarSan solution...Don't let it dry out.
-Start auto-siphon and siphon from primary to bottling jug, over the priming sugar solution. Once filled, swirl very gently.
-Fill bottles with bottling wand. Fill to the top. When I remove bottling wand, head space will be adequate due to the displacement from the wand.
-Cap with caps soaking in StarSan.
Am I good?