Looking for these caps....

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Well, I followed my regular process which involved dumping some yeast through the 2" bottom dump valve into a 2" sightglass before racking the beer into the bottling bucket. When I have about two gallons in the bucket, I add the priming sugar. I never thought of adding a tablespoon of yeast to the bucket if needed. Good idea.

I guess I will find out in about two weeks. I'm going to wait three weeks before I crack open the first bottle. I'm brewing later tonight and will definitely stay with 48 hours on cold crashing that batch. Thanks for responding

 

[day_trippr]

Did you use a soda bottle as an early indicator of the conditioning progression?
I always thought that was a brilliant idea that can cut down the "not quite ready" problem...

Cheers!

 

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Did you use a soda bottle as an early indicator of the conditioning progression?
I always thought that was a brilliant idea that can cut down the "not quite ready" problem...

Cheers!

No, I don't know what that process is. If I were to guess, would it be to fill a soda bottling when bottling just like the other glass bottles and the after awhile squeeze it or take a sip out of it to determine if it is carbonated well enough? Something like that?

I think there was a thread about plastic beer bottles somewhere. I'll have to look.

EDIT: It was months ago I read something about plastic bottles. Well I didn't have to look far as there was a post on them that was started just today. So it is a squeeze test for feel of hardness. Got it. Now I need to buy some plastic soda bottles to use later....

 

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@day_trippr, opened up my first bottle of that batch that I cold crashed for a week. After three weeks of conditioning, the carbonation and taste was spot on! The glass lasted less than five minutes....

Even though everything turned out ok, I will cold crash for 48 hours with my current batch that is fermenting.

@Dave Sarber, did you follow through with the caps? Do you have any pictures to share?

 

[Dave Sarber]

@day_trippr, opened up my first bottle of that batch that I cold crashed for a week. After three weeks of conditioning, the carbonation and taste was spot on! The glass lasted less than five minutes....

Even though everything turned out ok, I will cold crash for 48 hours with my current batch that is fermenting.

@Dave Sarber, did you follow through with the caps? Do you have any pictures to share?

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