First Bottling Today (question)

[bellaruche]

Curious. Bottling 50+ brews is a little time consuming. Is it necessary to cap each bottle immediately after filling? In other words, do I fill all 50 then cap them? Or fill, cap, fill, cap? Oxygen being the enemy is the reason for my question. Thanks for any response.

 

[Revvy]

You want to let them sit a bit, so that co2 will push oxygen out of the top of the bottle. What I do is fill 1 case worth, and lay a cap on each, then when I reach bottle 24 I stand up and cap them starting with the first. That give plenty of time to void out the bottles.

I go into more deatil about my process, along with a ton of tips in this thread, Bottling Tips for the Homebrewer.

 

[bellaruche]

Excellent! Those were the specifics I was looking for. Thanks a million!

 

[DrawTap88]

+1 to what Revvy said. I don't usually worry about capping until I'm all said and done (40+ bottles) and have never had a problem. Never hurts to be careful like Revvy though.

 

[stevo155]

same here...just make sure you don't bump into them and dump beer everywhere!!!

 

[cchotz]

Glad I found this thread and the one you wrote up previously Revvy. While I have my own system to bottling, adding the dip tube is a new one for me. I will have to try that next time.

I gave a thumbs up to that post...Thanks!