Bottling today!

[Union Brewer]

Gonna bottle my first batch today. It is an IPA. I can't wait any longer. Wish me luck!

[Diver Down]

Gonna bottle my first batch today. It is an IPA. I can't wait any longer. Wish me luck!
Every thing will be just fine if you have your bottles and caps clean.
Cheers!:alc:

[Ó Flannagáin]

Good luck!! I just finished doing some bottling off the keg for future swaps.

[Shenanigans]

Good luck and congrats. Now just 3 more weeks and the sweet nectar will be yours.

[Bmelanco]

How did it go? SOmehting always goes wrong/unplanned. First time I bottled I ran out of bottles and drank a bunch (6-7?) beers so I could use the bottles.

[PseudoChef]

How did it go? SOmehting always goes wrong/unplanned. First time I bottled I ran out of bottles and drank a bunch (6-7?) beers so I could use the bottles.

That's not something going wrong, that's something going awesome.

[landis]

How did it go? SOmehting always goes wrong/unplanned. First time I bottled I ran out of bottles and drank a bunch (6-7?) beers so I could use the bottles.

That's so freaking Macgyver

[Lerxst]

That's excellent!

I've found that as you go through bottling a few times, you either develop a method that makes it easy or you start kegging ;)

[Diver Down]

How did it go? SOmehting always goes wrong/unplanned. First time I bottled I ran out of bottles and drank a bunch (6-7?) beers so I could use the bottles.
Fast thinking Bmelanco:cool:

[Union Brewer]

Everything went well. We had plenty of bottles but that didn't stop us from drinking a few in the process. The only thing that I worry a little about is that I don't think we mixed the sugar up very well. When we got to the bottom of the bottling bucket there was quite a bit of sugar setting at the bottom. I hope this doesn't end up under carbing my beer. I just figured it might just take a little longer to carb? Anyone have any input?

[Barley-Davidson]

What type of sugar did you use, and did you dissolve it in boiled water first?

[wolf08gang]

Ditto what BD said. If you're using corn sugar, 3/4 cup boiled in a pint of water for 5 minutes will carb 5 gallons of beer.

Or 5/4 cup DME.

Or some say you can use regular table sugar. When I run out of corn sugar I'll give it a try. Alton Brown says that boiling sucrose converts it to dextrose any way. That guy is a freakin' genious!

Just pour your sugar solution into your bottling bucket, and rack on top of that.

[Barley-Davidson]

Just pour your sugar solution into your bottling bucket, and rack on top of that.

Racking on top is usually enough to mix the sugar throughout the beer, but I've had and heard about enough issues with uneven carbonation (including bottle bombs) that I've become an advocate for stirring with a sanitized spoon before bottling.

[fireballmatt]

I make a simple syrup by heating the sugar in 1 cup of sterile water until its dissolved, then let it cool to the temperature of the beer. I dump it in and stir gently to make sure it's well mixed.

I've never had a bottle bomb, theres been a few gushers, but that's it. I also don't have much of a problem with undercarbing either, although one batch I was rushed and just dumped the sugar in and stirred...that was the one that got lots of gushers and lots of undercarbed ones.

[Bmelanco]

Everything went well. We had plenty of bottles but that didn't stop us from drinking a few in the process. The only thing that I worry a little about is that I don't think we mixed the sugar up very well. When we got to the bottom of the bottling bucket there was quite a bit of sugar setting at the bottom. I hope this doesn't end up under carbing my beer. I just figured it might just take a little longer to carb? Anyone have any input?

Friend of mine just did the same thing on his first brew (yes, I've told him how great our site is and that he should join but he is lame). Some of his bottles are a little carbed, some flat, some just fine.

[Barley-Davidson]

Never had a bottle bomb personally, but I've heard enough stories that I'd rather err on the side of caution.

As far as the original post, if the priming sugar was dissolved in solution before it was added I doubt that's what was in the bottom of the bottling bucket. I think it's probably some trub that was transfered and settled out during bottling.

[Union Brewer]

No, my dumb ass forgot to mix the sugar and boil it. I can't believe I forgot. Every step of the brewing process I would get my book out and read about what I was getting ready to do, but for some reason I didn't when I bottled. I hope it doesn't turn out too bad. I figured they will be hit and miss.

[Batches_Brew]

I have to bottle this week. Been procrastinating like crazy. Gonna have two batches to bottle if I don't hurry.

[PseudoChef]

Alton Brown says that boiling sucrose converts it to dextrose any way.



Just for clarification: he says boiling breaks the bond of the disaccharide in sucrose. Sucrose is made up of one molecule of fructose and one molecule of glucose.

Dextrose is a different structure. Can't turn cane sugar into corn sugar.

[Shenanigans]

Isn't dextrose the same as glucose? Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosaccharide) (or simple sugar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar)) also known as grape sugar, blood sugar, or corn sugar


from wiki though ^^^

[PseudoChef]

Yeah. D'oh.

[Hicksey5]

Just bottled yesterday. I had a few first with this batch, First time using oak. First time not using a secondary and not using the sugar in the kit. Hopefully it carbs a little better than my last two batches.

[wolf08gang]

Just for clarification: he says boiling breaks the bond of the disaccharide in sucrose. Sucrose is made up of one molecule of fructose and one molecule of glucose.

Dextrose is a different structure. Can't turn cane sugar into corn sugar.

Fair enough. I was paraphrasing from my faulty memory. It
s been a couple of years since I watched the brewing episode.