Help with a 1 gallon jug!

[maclaren]

So I brewed a 1 gallon Honey Hefe batch and let it ferment in a gallon jug for 2 weeks, then racked it to a second gallon jug to condition/carb for another 3 weeks. I placed it in the fridge, cracked it open the next day and it was flat! I looked at previous posts on here and found that a lot of you have had similar problems with 1 gallon jugs with screw caps.

My question is should I just dump the beer and start over? Or can I put the beer in standard bottles, cap them and save the beer? Any help would be very much appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[jakenbacon]

ya you could just rack into bottles with some more sugar, cap them and wait another two weeks.... You will probably be fine....

 

[maclaren]

I was hoping so. Thank you very much for the response! I'm going to bottle tonight and hope for the best!

 

[jjbrght]

Don't throw it away...
Most caps I have used for gallon jugs leak gas like crazy.
I agree with jaken, bottle it.

 

[maclaren]

How much priming sugar should I pour into each bottle? A teaspoon or so?

 

[MindenMan]

I suggest when you bottle, you make 1 bottle a used soda bottle. That will tell you w/o opening a beer, has it carbonated enough. Filling one soda bottle per batch will save a lot of grief and heartache (lost beer)

 

[maclaren]

I like that idea a lot! Definitely going to try that!

 

[Joewalla88]

When I've done 1 gallon batches, I boil 1oz of priming sugar in 1/4 cups of water. It works pretty well.

 

[IslandLizard]

In some ways it is good that those gallon jugs leak a bit on the cap. They are not designed to hold pressure and could explode if you try. Same is true for pretty much all growlers.

 

[maclaren]

When I've done 1 gallon batches, I boil 1oz of priming sugar in 1/4 cups of water. It works pretty well.

How much of the 1/4 cup do you put in each bottle?

 

[rilshoc]

Let the priming solution cool while you transfer the contents of the secondary back into a sanitized container, stir in priming sugar, and bottle from there. I wouldn't want to do the math and measure out eye droppers of solution into each bottle.

 

[MindenMan]

1 gallon equals 10 bottles. so divide 2oz by 10, equals 0.2 oz. A half ounce is 1 Tablespoon, a quarter ounce is 1-1/2 teaspoons, so, 1-1/4 teaspoons should do it. Unless you forgot to factor in the sugar does add volume to the water. Okay, at this volume, 1 oz of added sugar to 2 oz of water is negligible, and does not need to be factored in. Unless you are counting drops,...

Okay, there are 30 drops to 1 mL, 30mL per ounce so 60 divided by 10 is 6 drops.


MindenMan CPhT (Pharmacy Tech.)

 

[Joewalla88]

I just do what rilshoc says. I mix it in with the beer in the bottling bucket. Then I bottle it from there.

 

[maclaren]

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1 gallon equals 10 bottles. so divide 2oz by 10, equals 0.2 oz. A half ounce is 1 Tablespoon, a quarter ounce is 1-1/2 teaspoons, so, 1-1/4 teaspoons should do it. Unless you forgot to factor in the sugar does add volume to the water. Okay, at this volume, 1 oz of added sugar to 2 oz of water is negligible, and does not need to be factored in. Unless you are counting drops,...

Okay, there are 30 drops to 1 mL, 30mL per ounce so 60 divided by 10 is 6 drops.


MindenMan CPhT (Pharmacy Tech.)