bottling

Hi, I recently bottled my 1 week old secondary ferment Rose Petal IPA (i am a new brewer). During the bottling process I was an idiot and was bottling really slow because the spring wasn't loosened enough to allow good flow. I was siphoning it into the bottle (i didnt have a pail with spigot)...

I bottled a batch of ale three weeks ago using bulk priming method. When there’s almost nothing left in a pale I’ve noticed that most of sugar didn’t dissolve staying at the bottom, which never happened before. I waited for three weeks, opened a bottle and, as I was expecting, it turned out...

Complete 1/2 BBL brewhouse with water filter, inline pump, tippy-dump insulated mash tun, and custom-welded frame Complete 4+ tap draught system with chest freezer, corny kegs, CO2, and perlick faucets Full fermentation setup including yeast starting plate, lagering fridge, heat pad, and custom...

Hello I currently have a 'lambic' that has been sitting in a carboy for a year now. Specifically, it is NB's Dawson's Kriek extract kit with Wyeast 3278 Lambic Blend. The issue I have is that it seems to have finished at 1.014. Gravity has not changed since I last took a sample 2 months ago. Do...

I have got some 1,5L magnum champagne bottles which i am going to fill with beer and they fit a 29mm cap. Will a cap hold the amount of carb in a 1,5L bottle or is a cork necessary? Cheers

Anyone have any experience bottling beer into magnum champagne bottles, like 1,5L. I have an idea of using them. I live in denmark but ordering bottles from anywhere in europe should be fine with me if anyone knows anywhere

I am new to bottling (and brewing in general). I have 5 gallons of hard cider I plan on bottling in Bordeaux style wine bottles. I have read that bottling carbonated beer/cider/mead/etc in wine bottles can be dangerous because wine bottles aren't made to handle whatever level of carbonation (or...

So my beers (two 11 liter batches) have been brewing for 12 days now and the recipe suggests a SG value between 1.008 and 1.014 before bottling, and that it should be achieved in 8-10 days. I checked the values first on day 8, then 10 and 12 and they haven't dropped (maybe VERY little). Is...

Hi, Today I decided to bottle my beer and something weird happened that didn't happened before and I am worried that my beer won't be successful in the end. So the fermentation was done a week ago I read its a good thing to leave it couple of days, not to bottle it right away. So I have an...

Ive got a chocolate and peppers stout that is just about ready to bottle, and when I tasted it last, I found the chocolate flavor lacking. Since I plan on carbonating in the bottle, is it possible to use some sort of chocolate chip to provide the sugars and or bump up the chocolate flavor a...

- Complete 1/2 BBL brewhouse with water filter, inline pump, tippy-dump insulated mash tun, and custom-welded frame - Complete 4+ tap draught system with chest freezer, corny kegs, CO2, and perlick faucets - Full fermentation setup including yeast starting plate, lagering fridge, heat pad, and...

So it happened my wife put erythriol in the sugar container and refused to inform me. I kegged my beer, but some beer remained and I decided to bottle it by priming them one by one with sucrose, which was in fact erythriol. So the question is: do I have to throw out the bottled beers? Since i...

Hi Everybody, I understand that adding Potassium Metabisulfite at bottling will help with anti-oxidation and preserving your wine longer. I have some questions related to this: 1) It seems counter-intuitive to add K-Meta to my carboy then bottle immediately. Wouldn't that cause a build-up of...

Hi Everyone, I live in Singapore. Over there the ambient temperature is fairly constant at around 27deg C. I am currently finishing to brew a Californian Pale Ale (It was a close of Sierra Nevada pale ale, using Whitelab yeast). My fermentation temperature has been 22deg C. Also I am not very...

So I currently have 12L of cider fermenting away and I plan on bottling maturing my cider in glass bottles. How long would I be best maturing them before drinking them? I've seen various ranges from 2 days after bottling to a year. I know that ale takes roughly a fortnight to mature in the...

So I started brewing a couple months back so my experience isn't massive. But I've read John Palmer, and try to stick by "the book." In terms of all the brewing literature/knowledge I've obtained as far as proper procedure. But with that being said on to what I am sure is a "noob" problem...

Hello, Kegging or bottles? To get into home brewing, i bought a deluxe extract home brewing kit that came with everything except bottles. The beer (chinook IPA) is almost finished primary fermentation so i need to start thinking about kegging or bottling. If I keg will i be able to drink the...

I quit drinking and want to clear out some storage space and finance some new hobbies, so I'm selling off all my homebrew equipment. This is (almost) everything you need to brew, keg and bottle beer from all-grain batches as well as equipment for a kegerator. Home-brew equipment includes...

Hi all, and thanks for allowing me to be a part of this group. It's awesome. I have brewed my own beer in the past, but that was using a pair of 5 gal buckets and some extract. Looking back on that experience, I can say that even using extract produced better beer than I was buying at the...

Hey all, first time caller here! I've been brewing all-grain for about six months now, and have just gotten into some yeast harvesting, stirring up starters, etc. I brought back a case of Hill Farmstead from VT last year, so I decided to try my hand at propagating up some of those dregs. I got...