The temperature of the beer in the primary fermenter was 60 degrees. The FSG was 1.2, we're not sure if that's good or bad, but we checked it anyway :-).
We had a lot of our good friends stop over to watch and help; let's hope they're still our friends after trying the beer LOL
Washing bottles
We dissolved the bottling sugar in 1/2 cup of boiling water, and removed it from the heat. We poured it into a sanitzed bottling bucket, and siphoned the beer from the primary fermenter into the bottling bucket, but did not stir it afterward.
Transferring into the bottling bucket
Siphoning the beer into the bucket
Using the bottle filling tool (that worked wonderfully) we filled 47 12 oz bottles, and they're sitting in cases waiting to be drank.
Antique "cheaters" used by an ATF agent at a local distillery
Capping
1 comment:
very cool! I tried this at a time when I was doing too much traveling and ended up with more spoilage in the bucket than quality product in the bottle. Ended up giving it up when my cost per bottle exceed the fun quotient of going through the process.. :) Let me know how it comes out, and be careful with the hops! MOre is not necessarily a good thing unless you like IPA's..
Dave
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