Hello everyone. My brother and I just started our first brew two weeks ago and decided to bottle yesterday since the FG was down to where it should be (we think). Well, we were pretty geeked about it and got all into cleaning and sanitizing the bottles. Once finished, we went to filling and capping and when we got to around 35-40 bottles I looked at my brother and said "aww crap", and he knew right away what was missing. I know you guys will laugh at us...but that's fine, we laughed at ourselves, well deserved. We forgot the priming sugar! So I called the LHBS and I asked about priming tablets, but he didn't carry them and told me to try putting a very level 1/2 tsp of priming sugar into each bottle and cap them quickly because they might foam up on us. We did that without the bottles foaming up too much...about only a half an inch or so. So, I was wondering what some of you think will be the outcome of priming this way and if there should be any noticeable activity in the bottles besides the brief foam when pouring in the priming sugar.
Oh yeah, this being our first brew we were curious and tried one of the bottles that we didn't put priming sugar and it tasted pretty good, just uncarbonated, of course. Well, thanks in advance.
Tim
Oh yeah, this being our first brew we were curious and tried one of the bottles that we didn't put priming sugar and it tasted pretty good, just uncarbonated, of course. Well, thanks in advance.
Tim