Transporting Fermenter

[TheMan]

Hi, I've got a brew weekend ahead of me and have a quick question.

Can I transport a fermenter (by car) to bottle somewhere else? It is ready to be bottled. Something tells me this is not a great idea, but figured I would ask on the off chance that maybe it's ok.

Thanks

 

[jpc]

It will need plenty of time (days?) to settle after transportation, unless you want cloudy, yeast-filled beer.

 

[david_42]

Rack it to your bottling bucket first.

 

[Arkador]

Rack it to your bottling bucket first.

+1 that's what i was thinking.

 

[TheMan]

if I racked it to bottling bucket, then drove over, let it sit and bottle at the end of the day...might that work? When would I add priming sugar?

 

[EvilTOJ]

That would work fine. I'd add the bottling sugar just before you start bottling. I don't *think* all the sugar would be gone if you added it then drove over, but I'm paranoid like that.

Also, since you have a kegging setup, put a spritz of CO2 in the bucket first so you don't have to worry about oxidation while it sloshes around in the drive.

 

[Pimp Juice]

You'd want to keep it in the trunk. If it was in the front it would be considered an open container.

 

[jmilton1987]

Are you serious about the open container? I wondered this when I was moving cross town and had two carboys full in the car and buckeled up. I am sure if you get pulled over though the cop would be cool about it as you would not have a straw going into it from your mouth.

 

[jpc]

Are you serious about the open container? I wondered this when I was moving cross town and had two carboys full in the car and buckeled up. I am sure if you get pulled over though the cop would be cool about it as you would not have a straw going into it from your mouth.

Cops are often dicks about that. Depending on the locale, it may be illegal to have alcohol in your car that isn't sealed. I've seen brewpubs that put a paper seal over the cap for this reason.

If there is such a law in your jurisdiction and a cop wanted to be ******* and write you a ticket, he could.

 

[Pimp Juice]

at what point does a primary become an open container, during krausen?

I've also thought about keeping the capper in the car in the case I am drinking and driving, but I'd probley still get a DUI.

 

[tprokop]

I had this discussion with someone before driving back to my parents' house, where I keep anything wild while it ferments. In this case, I was bringing back a turbid-mashed lambic after about two weeks of fermentation. It was in a glass carboy that wouldn't fit upright in the trunk, so it went behind the passenger seat on the floor.

Technically it is an open container. But it's also undrinkable (not the OP's if it's ready for bottling, though). That basically leaves it up to the mood of the cop. In this case, I just packed other stuff around and over it hoping that, on the off chance I got pulled over, it wouldn't be an issue.