My first post and first brew!

[lovelldr]

It will also mean you migh have wort left over after all your bottles are filled. Don't throw it away, store it in a sterilised container and put in the fridge.

Or, you could just get a few more bottles, and have even more bottles to drink

 

[orlando]

It will also mean you migh have wort left over after all your bottles are filled. Don't throw it away, store it in a sterilised container and put in the fridge.

Or, you could just get a few more bottles, and have even more bottles to drink

I have to say that is a better idea, but if you intend to brew again and want a great start.......you pays your money you take your choice.

 

[Hawks]

It will also mean you migh have wort left over after all your bottles are filled.

:wha:

As it all went into the FV, you'll just have more beer

 

[Home_Brew_Boy]

Just bottle my first ever beer there, no pics :? but a well. I'll get one up of the final product :thumb: so much more simple than I though the whole process was going to be but a pain in the hole bottling it. First time doing it and the woman in the brew shop said I'd be fine with a basic syphon. Think I might splash out on one of those fancy bottling taps before I start my next batch. Next month I'll have a lovely Caxton's Dark Ale ready to quaff. :drunk:

Thinking of going for a lagger next time, anyone advise on any nice kits out there?

 

[lovelldr]

Just bottle my first ever beer there, no pics :? but a well. I'll get one up of the final product :thumb: so much more simple than I though the whole process was going to be but a pain in the hole bottling it. First time doing it and the woman in the brew shop said I'd be fine with a basic syphon. Think I might splash out on one of those fancy bottling taps before I start my next batch. Next month I'll have a lovely Caxton's Dark Ale ready to quaff. :drunk:

Thinking of going for a lagger next time, anyone advise on any nice kits out there?

Not done one, but a few of the lads on this forum have recommended the "Better Brew" series of kits, which both the export lager, and czech pils both being recommended... I have a czech pils ready to put on after I bottle my next brew

 

[Fella]

Took a reading earlier 1.010. Ready for bottling? I've seen 2 different attitudes, leave it in the FV until its clear, or bottle it and let it clear in the bottle?

 

[orlando]

What is the expected FG? If it is 1.010 and/or you have had the same reading over a day or so then it may as well be racked off into a bottling bucket. Then you have a choice, you can batch prime which is dissolving the sugar into 250ml of water and boiling to sanitise, allowing to cool and then putting into the beer and mixing (my preferred method, aspecially if you fine at the same time), or racking into bottle and adding sugar into those one at a time. If you have a bottling cane it makes life a lot simpler as you are able to get the right amount in each time without introducing too much oxygen. I wouldn't bother racking to a secondary, this is a practice that is dying out as it confers little advantage and just introduces more opportunities for infection and oxygenating and is just more work. There is a school of thought that it allows for conditioning prior to bottling which has some merit but is probably better done in a keg rather than an FV.

 

[Fella]

First bottle. I sterilised just one and a cap, tried out my capper and it's looking ok. Obviously still cloudy. I poured it very slowly from the tap straight into the sterilised bottle. No different from siphoning I guess? 3/4 of a teaspoon of sugar into the bottle too, for secondary fermentation and carbonation. The bottle lid is very air tight, and the bottle is plastic so I can squeeze for carbonation testing.

Now I just have to design the label! I've got 4 weeks to do that though, 2 weeks in the warm, 2 in the cold...

 

[orlando]

I poured it very slowly from the tap straight into the sterilised bottle. No different from siphoning I guess?

The only thing to be careful of here is introducing too much air as you bottle. Doing it slowly will help but a bottling cane keeps the beer under the surface as it fills and this helps to minimise the risk.

Its a long time 4 weeks, isn't it?

 

[Fella]

39 bottles, plus 6 litres. Initial feeling is that it's a bit watery But I'm hoping the sugar might hide that or fill the flavour if you get what I mean?

Really disappointed with the bottles I got. Not only was the express delivery which I paid for not include saturdays (I work 9-5) it only was due to arrive when I was working. Plus a couple of the bottles were totally malformed, and the some of the caps rusted when I sterlised them. Lesson learned!

New brew to start after the 15th. I saw a coopers ginger beer in the local HBS window. Anyone tried it? It's to keep SWMBO quiet...

 

[Home_Brew_Boy]

As wrong as I thought these has gone (in my personal opinion) me and friends decided to drink it anyway. My friends have decided to dub this take on what should have been Caxton's Dark Ale as the Mind Eraser as well it is what it's called :party: : :clap: :rofl:


I'll wait to enjoy an actual brew that should be what it is instead of a diet poteen!

By the way anyone with good poteen recipes please let us know, I've ended up with 25K of free potatoes :hmm:

 

[Fella]

huh?

 

[pittsy]

huh?

me too ....huh ?

 

[bobsbeer]

I've ended up with 25K of free potatoes :hmm:

Chips...... :

 

[equiliser]

I had the same problem and it was the small black grommet leaking in the lid.
I changed mine for the little red top hat type as they have a better seal.