Allways a few short....

[BartJY]

Hi Folks,

Who here actually gets all two cases of bottles filled in bottling day? I always wind up with two or three bottle short of two cases..

Bart

 

[flars]

I always get at least 48 bottles. Most with some styles is 52 bottles.

 

[BartJY]

I guess I should go just a tad past the 5 gallon line......

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

I guess I should go just a tad past the 5 gallon line......

Don't forget you're leaving 1/2-3/4 of a gallon even of trub and sediment that doesn't get bottled.

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

The most important thing at the end of the day is quality beer, not volume of beer.

 

[flars]

May not be necessary to add extra volume. Volume from your 5 gallons can be lost due to racking to a secondary. Major loss may be from racking to the bottling bucket before the trub layer has compacted leaving clear beer above it.

I will usually leave my beers in the primary for three weeks, then rack to the bottling bucket.

 

[BigMack]

I just always shoot for 5.5 gallons into the fermentor.

 

[mattdee1]

I always shoot for getting between 5 and 5.5 gal into the bucket to ferment, and on beers that are not dry hopped this seems to get me between 48 and 55 12oz bottles. Every racking operation or dry hop reduces the final count.

 

[meatcleaver]

formulate your recipes to target 5.5 gallons to the fermenter.
52-56 bottles/batch every time.

 

[freisste]

I brew a little extra so I don't even come close to touching the true. Leave a bit of clear beer above it even. Wasteful? Maybe.

I also lose a bit at the bottom of a bottling bucket because the spigot is off the bottom. Sometimes I actually pour out the top of the bottling bucket to fill the last beer (marking it as a carb check).

Long story short, I get 50-52, usually. Two cases, two testers, maybe two for competition.

 

[str1p3s]

i made something similar to this:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=406151

it's a dip tube in the bottling bucket. it has helped me reduce the loss from the bottling bucket to just a few ounces