MariaAZ
Well-Known Member
I just finished bottling my first batch with relatively little stressing. But now I have a question that is haunting me.
According to the kit I bought (a pale ale) and Charlie Papazian's book, one adds the hot corn sugar solution to the bottling pail and depends upon the movement of the wort being siphoned on top of the solution. I was doing fine, happily bottling away, when I decided I needed to look up something in the Briess Homebrewing Companion that came with my equipment. I don't even remember what I was looking for, all I saw was the author's instruction to gently stir the beer with a sanitized spoon.
Well, at that time I had about 1/4 of the beer bottled in swingtop bottles. I called the HBS where I bought everything from, and the owner said I should be fine, but it wouldn't hurt to stir what was left.
My big worry is that the sugar didn't mix well enough (though I had pretty good swirling activity going on during racking) and that those first several bottles are going to be bottle bombs.
Should I worry? What should I do, besides relax and have a bottle of homebrew (I'm sampling the bit that stayed in the bottling bucket.)
According to the kit I bought (a pale ale) and Charlie Papazian's book, one adds the hot corn sugar solution to the bottling pail and depends upon the movement of the wort being siphoned on top of the solution. I was doing fine, happily bottling away, when I decided I needed to look up something in the Briess Homebrewing Companion that came with my equipment. I don't even remember what I was looking for, all I saw was the author's instruction to gently stir the beer with a sanitized spoon.
Well, at that time I had about 1/4 of the beer bottled in swingtop bottles. I called the HBS where I bought everything from, and the owner said I should be fine, but it wouldn't hurt to stir what was left.
My big worry is that the sugar didn't mix well enough (though I had pretty good swirling activity going on during racking) and that those first several bottles are going to be bottle bombs.
Should I worry? What should I do, besides relax and have a bottle of homebrew (I'm sampling the bit that stayed in the bottling bucket.)