Another bottling question...

[cheyneco]

Just bottled some apple cherry cider. About 5.5%.

I let a gallon ferment for 3 weeks, back sweetened with 6oz apple juice concentrate to take the FG from 1.000 to 1.010. Bottled it up and have it sitting in the closet on a shelf to bottle carb.

My question is this...I bottled half in crown cap bottles with crown caps. Those bottles look like my other batches....they're sitting there doing nothing.

The other half i bottled in re-used clear redds apple ale bottles with re-used twist top caps. I used saran wrap as a "seal" before putting on the twist top caps, which was pretty tight. This method has worked for me pretty well on 10-15 bottles so far at sealing the bottles and holding carb levels for over a month in the fridge. This group of bottles is bubbling visibly in each bottle. I can see the active fermentation going on. This isn't normal, correct? Does this mean my bottles aren't fully sealed? Or does it mean fermentation is just very active and I better toss these in the fridge to avoid bombs?

The only reason I bottled this way was because I did not have enough empty crown cap bottles to bottle all of them that way.

 

[Rambunctious]

My though is you have an air leak scrap using the plastic wrap sanitize the bottles and caps of the screw top bottles soak the caps in warm sanitizer while bottling they will seal. I reuse 16oz pop bottles for this all the time. Have never used the same bottles more than twice. They are plentiful and cheap. Also if they over carbonate they do not throw glass shards everywhere. I have also had success using the aluminum resealable bottles.


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[phug]

1 can AJC is about 87 grams of sugar, which, bottled at about 60F will give you between 7-8 vols of carbonation.

I strongly suggest you consider fridge storage, or pasteurization. The glass bottles won't hold that level or carbonation, but the PET ones might, I stress might, and will result in gushers when you open them. I think.

More experienced brewers chime in please?

 

[cheyneco]

I'm not planning on leaving them out indefinitely... Just until they're carbed then they go in the fridge.

Btw I did half a can of AJC... Not the whole can.