Newbie with advanced questions

[orlando]

Go for it! :thumb: Try to avoid splashing you don't want to oxygenate. Batch prime with sugar solution and stir well (remember sanitise everything that comes into contact with the beer). Your home free then. I'll bet its tasty. :drink:

 

[ipbr21054]

Everything washed and ready.
I will use 3oz of sugar,mix then bottle.
I will leave in the same room for 2 weeks then when moving to a cold place for 1 week.
Providing we do not have a frost can i leave it outside or it that to cold ?

 

[alanywiseman.]

Outside is fine :thumb:

It would need to get pretty cold for your beer to freeze and i dont see that happening at this time of year.

 

[ipbr21054]

One last question.
As i use a bottling stick the space taken up by the stick once in the bottle will occupy some beer space,i mean the level of the beer will drop once i remove the stick.
With the stick in the bottle do i fill to the top of the bottle then the remove stick & just put the cap on.
OR
Shall i just try it first with water and see what kind of space i have between the level of water & the top of the bottle once the stick is removed.
This may not be critical but asking before i continue then i can do the same procedure each time in the future.

Thanks very much for all the help & advice.

 

[lovelldr]

One last question.
As i use a bottling stick the space taken up by the stick once in the bottle will occupy some beer space,i mean the level of the beer will drop once i remove the stick.
With the stick in the bottle do i fill to the top of the bottle then the remove stick & just put the cap on.
OR
Shall i just try it first with water and see what kind of space i have between the level of water & the top of the bottle once the stick is removed.
This may not be critical but asking before i continue then i can do the same procedure each time in the future.

Thanks very much for all the help & advice.

I find that the space left after using bottling stick is the perfect space required... You need to leave roughly an inch at the top of the bottle neck, and give or take a little, this is how much is left when using the stick and allow to flow right to the top... Just make sure you have a towel underneath if you have a missus that moans about it dropping on the floor (even though I clean the floor up afterwards, she still moans :p)

 

[ipbr21054]

All beer has now been bottled.

Started 16th April 2012
Brew Buddy Bitter 40 pints
Kit Cost £12.99
Sugar 1Kg £1.00
SG 1.040
FG 1.008
Temperature around 20 Degrees c on average
Around 4.2%
Around 35p a pint :clap:

Just a couple of photos to look at.
Notice the photo on the right has not much in the way of foam etc on the brew just before i started to transfer into bin & batch prime compaired with the last photo i uploaded a couple of days ago.

 

[orlando]

Now relax : The worst part begins: waiting and waiting and waiting.....

However in the interests of "science" I like to try a bottle after each week so I can understand the whole process :whistle:

 

[ipbr21054]

I will also do that.

I have now 40 pints of coopers Lager on the go :)

 

[orlando]

"The Dark Side beckons Luke" :twisted:

 

[BeerEagle]

... Just make sure you have a towel underneath...

Useful tip I learned on a US forum: I have my bottling bucked positioned above my dishwasher. I leave the dishwasher door open to catch the drips. Then when finished, the next wash cycle will clean up.