Oops.....

[dover157]

I made one or two in the same night. Two weeks ago I decided it was time to bottle my first batch of beer, an extract hefewizen. Now this being my first batch of actuall beer I was excited (Inner speical needs person had taken over) but felt I knew what I was doing since I have bottled several batches of mead and wine. Steps are pretty much the same but with the addition of priming sugar. Got every thing set up and ready, ran mental checklist. Beer; check. Sanitized bottles; check. Racking cane, hose and filling wand; check. Boiled and cooled priming sugar; check. Caps; check. Ok we are good to go. Poured the priming sugar syrup in the bottling bucket, filled racking cane and hose with onestep, headed over and began transfering from primary to bottling bucket. Flow going nicely, not picking up to much gunk from the bottom all is going good. Now to dump out the jar that I began the racking into with the sanitizer and the first of the beer..... its empty.... Carp!..... It would seem that in my excitment I forgot that step and put the cane and hose full of sanitizer in the bottling bucket, its half full now to late to do anything about it. Went ahead and finished out the evening got all bottles filled, caped and marked. Im not going to ask the over used "did I ruin my beer??" I know the awnser is most likely "No", however I also know that I most likely lowered the quality a bit. Put two of them in the fridge last week knowing that they are not done conditioning yet with only 2 weeks in the bottle, but just gotta know how they are doing. Will pop one tonight when I get off work and see how bad I screwed up. Oh and the second mistake on the same day was "hey my primary is empty, lets go ahead and brew that Irish Red you just picked up today. OK!" Things went great on that one did not even have a boil over to deal with. Was only the next morning when moving the primary to the fermentation room did I notice that I have no empty bottles left, and this will be ready to bottle at the same time the others are ready to drink..... Time to buy more bottles I guess...

 

[PurpleJeepXJ]

No rinse sanitizer may kill the yeast since you had such a large amount but you will only know once you let them sit and you open one up.

 

[dover157]

Hmm, had not thought of that, if so guess i will just have to serve it over dry ice and call it a smoking hefe.

 

[Misfit]

I'm sure there is worse things than the possibility of having up to a batch of flat bottles. I drink beer straight from the fermenter all the time.

 

[Shawnylocks]

thats funny i did the same thing as far as bottling one batch and starting the next right away. now im out of bottles and same situation when one is ready to drink the other is ready to bottle. so i enlisted the help of a few friends and a few cases of beer for the weekend.... i should have plenty haha

 

[Slowfro]

Make sure you buy the special bottles that come with beer already in them. That way you get to enjoy emptying them before refilling them!

 

[ACbrewer]

problem 2 first - you just need to scrounge bottles, or such. Talk to bartenders for pop tops etc. (see other threads for all of that). Or visit your lhbs and buy some


Problem 1: Well I'm against using one step for sanitation - takes 10 mins of sitting. As to the effects? Phew I doubt highly it will affect the yeast, or affect them much. The hose and cane probably hold 4 to 8 oz of fluid, you put that up against 5 gallons. I bet the yeast overpower it. I'd be more worried about the oxygen cleaner in a beer since you've just added O2 to your beer, however that probably still isn't that much so you probably will be ok.

let us know how it tastes.

 

[dover157]

Well I have already got my scouts out looking for bottles so I should be good by the time I need them, that and I belive a case of full bottles is on the horizon. As to the other problem, I decided to pop one last night just so see how bad it was, and yay bubbles! That was about the only good part lol. First, the one step is not the first mistake with this batch, when brewing I messed up on my ice / water mix for top off, and ended up with just over 6 gal from a 5 gal recipe. as of right now its under carbed but that should get better with a couple more weeks in the bottle, and the taste is best described as a banna bud lite....... not quite what I was going for lol. When carbed fully, it should be drinkable, but not great but drinkable. Will have to pick up the stuff to do this one over next payday while at the LHBS so I can keep the pipeline going lol. Since im about out of one step will look into starsan at the same time I just noticed that my store carries it last week.