Justin Harmon
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Hello All,
I just have a few bottling day questions that I was wondering about.
This is my first time brewing with my new fermentation and bottling buckets. Both of them have spigots on them. I am no longer in possession of my old racking cane and siphon tubing. I was planning on simply transferring from the spigot on the fermentation bucket straight to the bottling bucket right on top of the priming sugar solution in the bottling bucket. Are there any pitfalls to not using a racking cane and siphon to transfer the beer this way? The spigot is about 2 inches off the bottom so I do not anticipate a great deal of sediment being transferred with the beer.
My other question has to do with final gravity. My Red IPA recipe was supposed to have an OG of 1.066 but it actually came out to more like 1.058. The final gravity is supposed to come out to 1.018. Given my actual lower OG, how should I adjust my expectations for the actual FG? I am embarrassed to say I don't even know what variables come in to play here.
Thanks in advance for your advice!
Cheers
I just have a few bottling day questions that I was wondering about.
This is my first time brewing with my new fermentation and bottling buckets. Both of them have spigots on them. I am no longer in possession of my old racking cane and siphon tubing. I was planning on simply transferring from the spigot on the fermentation bucket straight to the bottling bucket right on top of the priming sugar solution in the bottling bucket. Are there any pitfalls to not using a racking cane and siphon to transfer the beer this way? The spigot is about 2 inches off the bottom so I do not anticipate a great deal of sediment being transferred with the beer.
My other question has to do with final gravity. My Red IPA recipe was supposed to have an OG of 1.066 but it actually came out to more like 1.058. The final gravity is supposed to come out to 1.018. Given my actual lower OG, how should I adjust my expectations for the actual FG? I am embarrassed to say I don't even know what variables come in to play here.
Thanks in advance for your advice!
Cheers