Further update. Just took a mini swig when I racked it. It's pretty good!
I started mine last Friday with an OG of 1.080. 5 Gallons, added 5lbs of white sugar. It's been bubbling away, it's in a room that has been a steady 68-70 degrees. I have it in a plastic fermentation bucket.
I wanted it to be ready for St Patty's day, but I don't have any glass bottles to pasteurize it in. I don't mind about it being carbed or not. Can I nuke this with a bottle or two of 190 proof Everclear to stop fermentation, and then filter it through a coffee filter into a bottling bucket to take to the "party house"? I don't mind it having a high alcohol content-actually that's a goal of mine. I haven't checked the SG since fermentation begun.
My best guess is you fill a PET bottle of the same volume as your glass or other bottles that you can easily open and close to check your carb. Pour out a small amount, test, assuming your normal bottles and your test bottle are in the same place and at the same temperature, they should carb relatively similarly.Reading here about filling a plastic "test bottle" for a carb check prior to pasteurizing. How exactly does that work?
Obviously if I like the carbonation then I head straight for pasteurization. What if I think it needs a little more since my test bottle is done? Guess?
Bel isi,
-kyle
Reading here about filling a plastic "test bottle" for a carb check prior to pasteurizing. How exactly does that work?
Obviously if I like the carbonation then I head straight for pasteurization. What if I think it needs a little more since my test bottle is done? Guess?
Bel isi,
-kyle
I haven't brewed in a very long time...
Started two batches today.
1st batch
4 gal fresh pressed Pear Juice (pasteurized)
1/2 lb local wildflower honey - has a slight orange flavor to it
1lb brown sugar
Red Star yeast (its all I could get my hands on)
2nd batch
4 gal fresh pressed Apple Juice (pasteurized)
3/4 local wildflower honey
1lb brown sugar
Red Star yeast
Looking forward to this...I love unfiltered ciders. This is in the newly converted brew room of the house just bubbling away.
After you fill the plastic bottle you squeeze out all the air of the bottle and then cap it. The bottle will expand as the cider carbs.
Yeah, I think you are mistaken. The point of using a plastic bottle is to be able to squeeze it to see where your carbonation level is, not to open it and drink it. Obviously, the stiffer the bottle, the higher the carbonation level. When the bottle is relatively stiff, its time to pasteurize the rest.
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