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re: Looks Like a Fine Night to Brew some Beer....Updated Bottling
Posted on 5/16/13 at 8:49 pm to Zappas Stache
Posted on 5/16/13 at 8:49 pm to Zappas Stache
Take the nectar out of the fermentation fridge.
Take out a sample with our wine thief. We'll do a final gravity check....although not much fermentation usually happens in the secondary.
The gravity did not change....still 1.011 which gives us a 5.1% abv beer.
The smell is Citra hop goodness and the taste is very nice.
Take out a sample with our wine thief. We'll do a final gravity check....although not much fermentation usually happens in the secondary.
The gravity did not change....still 1.011 which gives us a 5.1% abv beer.
The smell is Citra hop goodness and the taste is very nice.
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Posted on 5/16/13 at 8:53 pm to Zappas Stache
Let's rack to our bottling bucket. I pour the sanitizer in the bottling bucket into another 5 gallon bucket and put all my tools in there....racking cane and tube, bottling tube/ valve thing....more on this later.
Now, pour the cooled sugar water into the bottling bucket.
Put the sanitized racking can into the carboy with the beer and the tube into the bottling bucket. Remember, I have a racking cane that has a manual pump on it. One pump and my gravity siphon is started and the beer flows into the bottling bucket.
Now, pour the cooled sugar water into the bottling bucket.
Put the sanitized racking can into the carboy with the beer and the tube into the bottling bucket. Remember, I have a racking cane that has a manual pump on it. One pump and my gravity siphon is started and the beer flows into the bottling bucket.
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:01 pm to Zappas Stache
Once the beer is in the bottling bucket. I set it on a milk crate on a work table and put a little stool in front. You can see the long skinny tube coming off the bucket valve This tube has a compression valve on the end of it. When you press the bottom of the bottle against this valve, it opens and beer flows into the bottle.
Empty, sterilized bottles on the floor to my left.
Empty, sterilized bottles on the floor to my left.
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:04 pm to Zappas Stache
Now I need to put my bottle caps in a small sanitizing bucket so I can easily reach them,,,, 
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
I am out of caps!!! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
5pm on a thursday and I have to drive to the homebrew store in richardson. Normally a 20 minute drive is 45 up there and 45 back. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Off we go.
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: I am out of caps!!! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
5pm on a thursday and I have to drive to the homebrew store in richardson. Normally a 20 minute drive is 45 up there and 45 back. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Off we go.
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:08 pm to Zappas Stache
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I am out of caps!!!
5pm on a thursday and I have to drive to the homebrew store in richardson. Normally a 20 minute drive is 45 up there and 45 back. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Ha ha! I was planning to run by there this afternoon but got hung up at the office. I'll do a Mr. G's and homebrew store run on Saturday.
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:12 pm to rds dc
It is so beautiful up there that I dont mind the drive. Where is Mr Gs?
This post was edited on 5/16/13 at 9:13 pm
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:18 pm to Zappas Stache
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Where is Mr Gs?
About 4 miles north of there
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:20 pm to rds dc
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About 4 miles north of there
ok...I wish they had a HBS near me. Maybe I need to open one down here.
So...caps into a small container of sanitizer.
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:21 pm to Zappas Stache
Do the Funky Bottle
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:23 pm to Zappas Stache
I will fill about 6 bottles and set the caps on top as I go. Then I'll cap those 6.
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:24 pm to Zappas Stache
Before I fill the next 6, spray down that tube with sanitizer.
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:27 pm to Zappas Stache
I end up with 52 beers if I count bombers as 2 beers. I'll number the caps with the batch # that corresponds to my recipe in my Brewing software. This is #22 while using Beersmith. I used to use Pro Mash software and still find it more intuitive to use. But Beersmith seems to be the Homebrew standard and does have more tools included.
Posted on 5/16/13 at 9:30 pm to Zappas Stache
Put the beers into the fermentation fridge and dial the temp on my controller up to 75. I put the electric blanket in there as it was still in the 50s at night last weekend. Its important that the bottles be at 70-75 to get the yeast working and the carbonation will follow. Some beers carbonate in a week, some take longer. If its a high abv beer, Ive had them take 4 weeks. And belgians take even longer sometimes.
This post was edited on 5/16/13 at 9:31 pm
Posted on 5/16/13 at 10:42 pm to Zappas Stache
Great thread, Zappa!
Also, you can see the sweet Zappa stache in the steamy refractometer pic.
Also, you can see the sweet Zappa stache in the steamy refractometer pic.
Posted on 5/16/13 at 11:04 pm to TheChosenOne
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Great thread, Zappa!
taking all those pics is a job. quote:
Also, you can see the sweet Zappa stache in the steamy refractometer pic.
Just met a girl named Dinah Mo Hum she bet a Twenty dollar bill I can't make her cum........so I got down to it.
Posted on 5/17/13 at 6:47 pm to Zappas Stache
So I bottled 8 days ago. Time to crack a bottle open and see if its carb'd and how it taste.
Oh yes.....very nice.....well carb'd and Citra, Citra Goodness!!!!
Oh yes.....very nice.....well carb'd and Citra, Citra Goodness!!!!
Posted on 5/17/13 at 10:30 pm to Zappas Stache
Congrats, Stache. Looks really, really tiresome, but I´d imagine the pleasure one finds in producing a great product, is reward enough.
Kudos.
Kudos.
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