Can this work!?!?

[justoned707]

What if a ferment my beer for a week than bottle strait into champaign bottles? Thnkx

 

[WoodlandBrew]

Fermentation rate is dependent on a number of variables (eg pitch rate, original gravity, temperature, yeast strain and more). It could be done in one week, or only half way. If you bottled at this point it could result in anything between flat beer and bottle bombs.

What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[justoned707]

Just to finish everything in a champaign bottle. Can a og of 1.046 make a champaign bottle explode?

 

[m00ps]

Even if we ignore any pressure concerns, you dont want to do this

A lot of byproducts are created during fermentation. Some strains even produce sulfur aromas. You dont want all this stuff in the bottle with your finished beer. Plus you will have a huge layer of yeast and crap at the bottom

 

[WoodlandBrew]

Just to finish everything in a champaign bottle. Can a og of 1.046 make a champaign bottle explode?

It actually could. It takes a gravity of 1.0016 to produce one atmosphere of CO2. 45/1.6=28 which is 28 atmospheres. For comparison, most beer is carbonated to about 3 atmospheres.

 

[justoned707]

So how many can a champaign bottle hold?

 

[chickens4life]

Even if we ignore any pressure concerns, you dont want to do this

A lot of byproducts are created during fermentation. Some strains even produce sulfur aromas. You dont want all this stuff in the bottle with your finished beer. Plus you will have a huge layer of yeast and crap at the bottom

yep, and all of that yeast is much more likely to go through autolysis in a pressurized bottle than in a carboy, plus contact time would be the entire life of the beer.

It is possible if your process is very repeatable and you know exactly how far the beer will attenuate, to watch the gravity and package when about 2-3 points from final. But you still have the other problems mentioned above.

 

[justoned707]

So now I'm not going to do it
Thanks for the info!! I'll wait three weeks. Its fermenting in a bottling bucket and I'll bottle it straight into champaign bottles with fizz caps after a cold crash!!')

 

[The_Bishop]

Why champaign bottles? Then you need to cork and cage 'em. 22 oz bottles are cheaper and easier?

 

[Psylocide]

I'm guessing he has a bunch left over from the NYE party... lol.

 

[justoned707]

I get em free from work and they hold more pressure and volume!