Bottling
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There is a thread in the How-To forum here that might help you.
How you physically get the beer into bottles really depends on the equipment you have. But I siphon the liquid to another bucket (making sure to avoid any crap in the fermenter) which has a tap and a bottling wand. The bottling wand makes transfer to the bottles very easy from there.
How you physically get the beer into bottles really depends on the equipment you have. But I siphon the liquid to another bucket (making sure to avoid any crap in the fermenter) which has a tap and a bottling wand. The bottling wand makes transfer to the bottles very easy from there.
Put your empty bottles into boxes (boxes of 15-20 depending on size) that are capable of taking the weight when there full, best to put a bit of old newspaper or something below the bottles inside the box as well as there can be some spillage as bottles get filled. Have the beer either batch primed just before bottling or all the bottles primed just before filling.
Place your bottling bucket on a worktop and put all the boxes below the bottling bucket on the floor, once you have your wand and hose attached just sit and fill each bottle in each box, once you fill a box push it out of the way and start on the next, this will let you get them all filled in one go without having to stop/start handling full bottles.
You should be able to loosely screw the caps on with one hand while holding down the wand with the other and as the bottling bucket gets near empty you can tilt it with your free hand as well.
Place your bottling bucket on a worktop and put all the boxes below the bottling bucket on the floor, once you have your wand and hose attached just sit and fill each bottle in each box, once you fill a box push it out of the way and start on the next, this will let you get them all filled in one go without having to stop/start handling full bottles.
You should be able to loosely screw the caps on with one hand while holding down the wand with the other and as the bottling bucket gets near empty you can tilt it with your free hand as well.
Check out my bottling for beginners thread in the How to.. section..
Cheers
Clint
Cheers
Clint
Top tip...but some easy kegs! :lol:
On a more serious note, if you can rope someone in to cap as you fill it saves a fair bit of time.
On a more serious note, if you can rope someone in to cap as you fill it saves a fair bit of time.
Nicknacknoo
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i put all my bottles in the dishwasher. Wash on high heat. Then use a bottling wand to fill the bottles. Then cap. takes about 40 mins from dishwasher finishing to last cap going on. Easy peezy. Ain had no problems so far. I usually bottle from secondary fermentor, but have done from primary too.
