So, I've been stuck at work for the past 67 hours (snow storm). I have been thinking about bottling my beer the whole time. So, I rested yesterday and went to the brew store, they were closed. So I go today, pick up some new equipment and bottles. I come home and start rinsing my bottles and sanatizing (maybe). What I did was fill up my sink with hot water and C-Brite, and started so scrub each one with a brush inside and then shake them out. So I look at the first bottle and at the bottom it still has some water in it. So I read that you can put them in the oven to sanatize too. So I did that and the water evaporated. Am I ready to bottle or is this going to turn out aweful? I don't have a "tree" to hang the bottles from.... Am I ready?
Bottling Day?
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TipsyDragon
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you heat sanitized the bottles. your ready.
TipsyDragon
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i believe cbrite is a cleaner not a sanitizer. if so it was a good idea to heat sanitize them after. if not you didn't hurt anything.
Blast them clean then give them a shot of StarSan, just to say you did.
You musta sent that white stuff right up the I-44 pipeline, I've been buried in snow and ice for 5 days, got out for the first time today.
You musta sent that white stuff right up the I-44 pipeline, I've been buried in snow and ice for 5 days, got out for the first time today.
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Yeah, I would have done the starsan from what I've been reading but I don't have any. I'm not exactly sure about c-brite I've read so many different things about it but nothing like exact....if that makes sense. And yeah I'm from Illinois, I just moved down to OK and it came here and then just went north lol. This bottle cleaning **** takes forever. I think im gonna use a dishwasher next time with High Heat. Plus I want to brew another batch tonight, I'm nervous though, I bought a kit where you have to steep the grain and now, as I'm reading I have this liquid yeast where you have to let it swell for 3-5 hours in the directions, but the back of the yeast says let swell or directly pitch..... what do I do for that. Lol the guy at the store says it's all easy but this stuff seems really complicated??? Or am I just an idiot?
Damnit. I always learn what I shouldn't do after the fact that I've done it. So when I was siphoning from the fermenting bucket to bottling bucket I kinda just let it flow, not caring about oxidization...... am I screwed. The whole time I just held the end of the tube right above the beer already in the bucket.
Rky29 said:
I did the same thing with my first batch. It tasted fine for a while but after a month or two it started to taste a little off. In the short run you should be fine but I would drink it up pretty quick and get another batch in the primary!!!
I think with oxidation you have a window to drink it within a few months till it starts tasting like sherry or cardboard. I always make an effort to drink my last bottled beers first because i have to tilt the bucket and always get air. Until i make a drain tube like Revvy,Ill drink those first as testers.
Bacchusuga
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Probably a dumb question, but how are you supposed to do it? I just bottled my beer and I did the same thing.
Prevent the beer from falling through the air and bubbling. Place the end of the siphon tube below the surface of the liquid in the bucket, once some is there.
I bought a longer piece of tubing so it will reach to the bottom of my bottling bucket and curl part way around the bottom. This causes the beer to swirl in the bottling bucket, hopefully mixing in the priming sugar a little better. When it is all transferred, I sanitize a long handle slotted spoon and gently stir so I don't introduce air and get more mixing.
Well just tried my first bottle and it tasted great. For what I did, it wasn't all that hard to make. Now that I realize my mistakes this time the second time should be much easier. Their currently in the fridge cooling down while I'm enjoying a local brew (Marshall Sundown Wheat) that my girlfriend picked up for me. Thanks for all the help guys!
