devilishprune
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Let me start off by saying, I usually don't take gravity readings usually before I'm done bottling.
My OG on my batch, a licorice sweet stout, was 1.067 for a 5.5 gallon batch. I left the beer in the primary for 3.5 weeks.
I didn't have lactose to add to my batch at boil time, so I added 1 lb of it at bottling, along with 3 oz of priming sugar. I dissolved it in 16 oz of water and dumped it into my bottling bucket. I transferred the beer from the fermenter onto the solution to swirl it up and mix everything together (I usually don't stir or anything). I went ahead and bottled my beer, and then I used the remaining beer that wasn't sucked up from my diptube to take a gravity reading.
Man, was I shocked.
My gravity was 1.05-something. I didn't really get an accurate measurement, because I was a little angry at the time and figured it was irrelevant anyway, considering I had several cases of bottled and capped beer as is.
Upon further consideration, I realized that it's possible that the priming sugar didn't mix adequately with the beer due to the viscosity/density of the solution (since it was about 1 lb 3 oz of sugar as opposed to 5 oz) and that I had gotten the dregs from the bottom of the bucket that contained all the sugar.
Is this possible? Or is all my beer going to end up outside of my bottles (I put them in a large plastic container just in case).
EDIT:
As another experiment (unintentional mind you) I bottled one 12 oz'er without sanitizing the bottle first. We'll see what happens with that one.
My OG on my batch, a licorice sweet stout, was 1.067 for a 5.5 gallon batch. I left the beer in the primary for 3.5 weeks.
I didn't have lactose to add to my batch at boil time, so I added 1 lb of it at bottling, along with 3 oz of priming sugar. I dissolved it in 16 oz of water and dumped it into my bottling bucket. I transferred the beer from the fermenter onto the solution to swirl it up and mix everything together (I usually don't stir or anything). I went ahead and bottled my beer, and then I used the remaining beer that wasn't sucked up from my diptube to take a gravity reading.
Man, was I shocked.
My gravity was 1.05-something. I didn't really get an accurate measurement, because I was a little angry at the time and figured it was irrelevant anyway, considering I had several cases of bottled and capped beer as is.
Upon further consideration, I realized that it's possible that the priming sugar didn't mix adequately with the beer due to the viscosity/density of the solution (since it was about 1 lb 3 oz of sugar as opposed to 5 oz) and that I had gotten the dregs from the bottom of the bucket that contained all the sugar.
Is this possible? Or is all my beer going to end up outside of my bottles (I put them in a large plastic container just in case).
EDIT:
As another experiment (unintentional mind you) I bottled one 12 oz'er without sanitizing the bottle first. We'll see what happens with that one.