Bottle carbonating

[flat350]

When you carbonate in the bottle do you ever actually see any gas bubbles forming from the added sugar ?

 

[Lampy]

I never have, and I used to visually check my bottles almost every day of conditioning.

 

[Jonakr]

When you carbonate in the bottle do you ever actually see any gas bubbles forming from the added sugar ?

Also no.

 

[DuncB]

You might see some bubbles rising as a result of the existing carbonation in the beer nucleating into bubbles on the sugar crystals. But only in the very short term. But bottle conditioning is a non visible process.

 

[hout17]

Some people use one pet plastic bottle when they bottle their brew and check the bottle. When it gets hard and they can't squeeze it then it's carbonated. I don't do that but that's a way to get some gratification that the beer is carbonating/carbonated.

 

[flat350]

I was bored and thinking too much, that's where the question came from and yes I did a plastic test bottle, just curious.

 

[DuncB]

Really satisfy your curiosity, plastic bottle, screw on one of these
https://www.kegland.com.au/plastic-carbonation-line-cleaning-cap-fermzilla-cap.htmlbut shorten the red post into the bottle and then ball lock with pressure gauge.

Then you can play guess the squeeze to the vols of carbonation game.

 

[flat350]

Well my plastic test bottle is getting pretty hard to squeeze so it seems like it's working.

 

[ncbrewer]

Keep in mind that the test bottle isn't the whole story. It tells you it has carbonated to some extent, but it may still need more time for the beer to be at its best.

 

[flat350]

Keep in mind that the test bottle isn't the whole story. It tells you it has carbonated to some extent, but it may still need more time for the beer to be at its best.

I'm not in a hurry, it can sit and do it's thing.