So, I'm bottling my second brew. A wheat ale. My first mistake was not ensuring that my spigot was closed before putting my priming sugar in the bottling bucket. I could not tell exactly how much I lost since my kitchen mat absorbed most of it. I could tell most of it was still in the bucket so I just added about 3 table spoons of honey and moved on. I guess my REAL first mistake was not having extra supplies handy. My second mistake was not having my caps ready to go before racking into the bottling bucket. I thought I was being clever and was quite proud of myself when bottling my first batch and came up with the idea of putting all of my caps in a cullender, dipping them in sani-water, and letting them dry. It worked great at the time. What I just found out though, is that the rest of the caps I didn't end up using then are now rusted. I didn't start really panicking until I realized I could not find my second, unopened bag of caps. The kicker is that I have to be at work in the morning before any stores open and I won't be able to get home with new caps until about 24 hours from now. So I'm sitting here with a dishwasher full of sanitized bottles, a bottling bucket full of beer, plastic bag full of rusted bottle caps, and my last cold homebrew from my first batch.
My questions... How much of my priming sugar/honey mixture will already have been consumed in this 24 hours that my ready-to-bottle beer is sitting in my kitchen? Would I need to add any more sugar before I bottle tomorrow(assuming I used the right amount of honey to make up for the lost sugar)? This night really sucked. Give me some good news.
My questions... How much of my priming sugar/honey mixture will already have been consumed in this 24 hours that my ready-to-bottle beer is sitting in my kitchen? Would I need to add any more sugar before I bottle tomorrow(assuming I used the right amount of honey to make up for the lost sugar)? This night really sucked. Give me some good news.
