Hi,
Noob brewer here. I recently bottled my first batch 2 and then brewed my 2nd batch last night (both extract kits). I'd read about how to brew beforehand but now that I've done it I have some questions.
First, bottling. I bottled 2 nights ago, and it was a huge mess. I'm using starsan which as everyone knows foams vigorously. So I sanitized the bottles, boiled the priming sugar and put in in the bottling bucket, and then racked the beer on top of it.
Now, as I'm filling the bottles, the (starsan) foam is overflowing on every single one of them. to get the beer within 1" of the top, most of the foam has to come out, so I have like 80% starsan foam and 20% beer foam pouring out of the top of every single bottle, running down the side. Is this normal? I know people say "don't fear the foam", but this was a real sloppy mess.
I know you can sanitize bottles using the dishwasher, but my dishwasher will only hold about 36 bottles, so the rest will still need to be star-san'ed.
2nd question. I did NOT stir my priming sugar into the beer before bottling like I intended. I'm worried that this will result in wildly un-even carbonation in my bottles. How critical is stirring in priming sugar?
3rd question, again foam related. Last night I brewed a red ale and decided to try to use a 6 gallon glass carboy as the primary instead of my big bucket. My extract kit tells me to aerate the wort before pitching. So I have 2 6 gallon carboys, both of which I sanitized using star-san by pouring it back and forth and agitating it.
So now both carboys have a ton of starsan foam and I want to aerate the wort by pouring it back and forth between the 2 carboys. After pouring it into the first carboy there's like 1.5 gallons of foam volume in there and I really can't even get all the (5 gallons) of beer in there. Foam was spurting out between the carboy and the funnel.
So, I guess same question as before. Is this normal? I could just pour half of the beer in there, wait for 5 or 10 minutes for the foam to subside a bit, then pour the rest, but if I want to do that multiple times to really aerate the hell out of it that's a lot of time where the wort is exposed at room temperature which is bad, no?
does this sound normal? thanks!
Noob brewer here. I recently bottled my first batch 2 and then brewed my 2nd batch last night (both extract kits). I'd read about how to brew beforehand but now that I've done it I have some questions.
First, bottling. I bottled 2 nights ago, and it was a huge mess. I'm using starsan which as everyone knows foams vigorously. So I sanitized the bottles, boiled the priming sugar and put in in the bottling bucket, and then racked the beer on top of it.
Now, as I'm filling the bottles, the (starsan) foam is overflowing on every single one of them. to get the beer within 1" of the top, most of the foam has to come out, so I have like 80% starsan foam and 20% beer foam pouring out of the top of every single bottle, running down the side. Is this normal? I know people say "don't fear the foam", but this was a real sloppy mess.
I know you can sanitize bottles using the dishwasher, but my dishwasher will only hold about 36 bottles, so the rest will still need to be star-san'ed.
2nd question. I did NOT stir my priming sugar into the beer before bottling like I intended. I'm worried that this will result in wildly un-even carbonation in my bottles. How critical is stirring in priming sugar?
3rd question, again foam related. Last night I brewed a red ale and decided to try to use a 6 gallon glass carboy as the primary instead of my big bucket. My extract kit tells me to aerate the wort before pitching. So I have 2 6 gallon carboys, both of which I sanitized using star-san by pouring it back and forth and agitating it.
So now both carboys have a ton of starsan foam and I want to aerate the wort by pouring it back and forth between the 2 carboys. After pouring it into the first carboy there's like 1.5 gallons of foam volume in there and I really can't even get all the (5 gallons) of beer in there. Foam was spurting out between the carboy and the funnel.
So, I guess same question as before. Is this normal? I could just pour half of the beer in there, wait for 5 or 10 minutes for the foam to subside a bit, then pour the rest, but if I want to do that multiple times to really aerate the hell out of it that's a lot of time where the wort is exposed at room temperature which is bad, no?
does this sound normal? thanks!