First time bottling question

[damianinpa]

I have my 1 Gallon batch in the little big mouth bubble and fermentation is complete. I'm ready to bottle this weekend. I see Trub at the bottom which I know is normal, but, my question is...Can I just pour the Wort back into my Kettle (sanitized of course) through a spaghetti strainer to try and catch as much trub as I can. Then, just bottle from the kettle? Would this work or should I just bottle from the bubbler and try to not get the Siphon down to the bottom where the trub is? Like keep it above it if possible which seems like it might be hard. I though trying to use some type of strainer might help, but, I defer to experienced people on here.

 

[Iseneye]

That would badly oxidize your beer so no don't do that. If you cool the beer in a fridge first before racking most of the trub will be left behind.

 

[flars]

Are you bottling solo? If not have someone hold the siphon just above the trub layer as you bottle. It helps to tilt the fermentor a day or two before bottling to let disturbed trub resettle. A piece of 2 × 4 or junk catalogs works well for this.

 

[AkTom]

Are you using carb tabs?

 

[Dcioni]

No, dont do that! You'll oxidize the hell out of your beer. Once the beer has entered the fermenter you should be careful about introducing oxygen. Simply rack the beer out of the fermenter into a bottle. It should settle out nicely at the bottom of the fermenter after a couple of days

 

[damianinpa]

Are you using carb tabs?

Yes, my kit came with Fizz Drops which I'm using. I guess I'll just siphon from Fermernter and keep it above the Trub.

 

[Lefou]

I bottle condition and tend to choose less flocculent yeasts for my brews. I also use a siphon and bottle alone.
Minimize the trub as much as possible. A little bit doesn't hurt as some of your viable yeast may still be healthy enough to help carb your beer. You definitely don't want to strain yeast in the open air as it will contribute to staling.
WLP029 Kolsch yeast is like this ... its krausen tends to drop quickly and the beer ferments from the bottom much as a lager yeast might, you still have viable yeast in suspension to carb your raw beer.

 

[ncbrewer]

Are you bottling solo? If not have someone hold the siphon just above the trub layer as you bottle.

That should work ok. But if you don't have a helper, you would need some way to keep the siphon above the trub. I might be a lot easier to rack to another bucket/jug and then bottle from that. Then there would be no issue with trub.

 

[AZCoolerBrewer]

Since you are using the fizz drops just syphon the beer just above the trub layer directly into the bottles. The trub should be pretty compacted on the bottom if you have left it to ferment long enough. If you don’t have one, you should get a bottling wand. The wand is really magic for making bottling easy. As the above poster mentioned, tilting your fermentor will allow you to get all but a couple ounces of beer. You can re-use the trub layer as your yeast if you brew up some new wort. But don’t use it for a Blonde if the previous batch was a Russian Imperial Stout.

 

[damianinpa]

So, I just bottled my 1st attempt at making beer. It was a 1 gallon sweet porter. The Magic Siphon wasn't the easiest to use, but, I got 6 beers filled. The 7th became an issue because of trub. I ended up just pouring some right from the bubbler into the bottle trying not to get too much trub. I got an 8th bottle filled, but, not sure if it will be 'chunky'. Question...for my next 1 gallon batch..Can I just take the dry hops and put them in a small muslin bag? I see the next brown Ale I doing comes with 7 grams Willamette hops and 3.5 grams Willamette hops. I don't think I want to just add these to Wort as it created quite alot of trub. If I use small muslin bag, will that work o.k.? Wasn't sure I could do that with dry hops or for small batch since it is small qty. of hops provided. Or, I thinking of putting a strainer over the little bubbler next time to see if that helps. I dumped directly from Kettle to Bubbler.

 

[bpgreen]

You can use a muslin bag for the dry hops. Sanitize it first.