Junkyard Brewing part deux
08-29-2008, 03:39 PM
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Junkyard Brewing part deux
For part 2 of my write up, id like to show bottling my beer. If you need a refresher of how to brew beer, here is my first write up.
Bottles. Where do you get beer bottles? Not just any bottles, but only re-capable bottles will suffice. Generally, any of your craft brews which you can find at various liquer stores and supermarkets are re-capable bottles. Sam Adams is re-capable. Corona bottles will NOT work unless you have a commercial bottle caper.
If you dont wanna drink beer to get bottles, you can buy bottles. Williams brewing, northern brewer, your local home brew store should carry bottles, or you also have the option of kegging.
Your bottles gotta be clean. So how do we do that? You can buy bottle washer/cleaner and you will need to do just that.
Take a rubbermaid container, put your bottles in there, mix your solution and let your bottles soak a few days to a week.
Once they soak, labels will just fall off and make life easy. You will have a little residue left over from the glue..from there, throw your bottles in your dishwasher and let them do there thing in there. They will come out nice and clean.
(no pictures of this)
So just like in brewing, you need to have a clean area to start. I wipe everything down with some clorox cleaner. Also in the picture you can see the corn sugar and my caps that I will be using, whcih were included with my kit. Then of course you see the big bottle of bleach.
Here is my brew. I transfered it into a new fermenting tank (a secondary) so that my beer clears itself up a little more.
The next thing we have to do is get the wort ready to bottle. How we do this is take your wort and transfer it into your priming bucket. On the bottom of my fermenting bucket there is a spicket so I can just hook up a hose and drain it into the priming tank. So I moved my wort into the priming tank and once it was in there, I added/gently stirred in my corn sugar which will carbonate my beer in the bottles and create some tasty beer. As you can see, I started with about 5g of beer, when its all said and done, im going to be botteling about 4g of beer due to loss in transfer and sludge at the bottom of the wort, which you dont want in your beer.
Ive got my bottles ready to go. If you use just regular 12oz bottles, you need about 55 for a 5g batch. I have a mixed of pint bottles, 12oz bottles and
I have a 1/2g growler.
Take another rubbermaid and fill it about half way with warm water and a CAP FULL of bleach. Toss a few bottles in there.
This is to sanatize your bottles before you put your beer in them.
Once your bottles sit in there a few min's pull them out, dump everything out, and rinse a little bit.
From here its time to bottle. There are several ways to bottle your beer, all ranging from siphoning to a tap and a hose. Fill all of your bottles so you have about 1/2" to the cap and then put your cap on there.
one of my JKC (not AKC) doxins likes to help me out.
and then once your done filling your bottles, I put mine into a rubbermaid and then close the lid and put it in a dark cool closet. ANother reason I put my beer in a rubbermaid, your beer is now carbonating. If one of those caps arent on right, its gonna blow off and make a mess. The bottles in a rubbermaid will help contain the mess. Also, since you wanna store it in a dark area, a dark rubbermaid will help keep your brew in a dark area.
Now, give it about 2 weeks and crack one open and give it a taste.
Bottles. Where do you get beer bottles? Not just any bottles, but only re-capable bottles will suffice. Generally, any of your craft brews which you can find at various liquer stores and supermarkets are re-capable bottles. Sam Adams is re-capable. Corona bottles will NOT work unless you have a commercial bottle caper.
If you dont wanna drink beer to get bottles, you can buy bottles. Williams brewing, northern brewer, your local home brew store should carry bottles, or you also have the option of kegging.
Your bottles gotta be clean. So how do we do that? You can buy bottle washer/cleaner and you will need to do just that.
Take a rubbermaid container, put your bottles in there, mix your solution and let your bottles soak a few days to a week.
Once they soak, labels will just fall off and make life easy. You will have a little residue left over from the glue..from there, throw your bottles in your dishwasher and let them do there thing in there. They will come out nice and clean.
(no pictures of this)
So just like in brewing, you need to have a clean area to start. I wipe everything down with some clorox cleaner. Also in the picture you can see the corn sugar and my caps that I will be using, whcih were included with my kit. Then of course you see the big bottle of bleach.
Here is my brew. I transfered it into a new fermenting tank (a secondary) so that my beer clears itself up a little more.
The next thing we have to do is get the wort ready to bottle. How we do this is take your wort and transfer it into your priming bucket. On the bottom of my fermenting bucket there is a spicket so I can just hook up a hose and drain it into the priming tank. So I moved my wort into the priming tank and once it was in there, I added/gently stirred in my corn sugar which will carbonate my beer in the bottles and create some tasty beer. As you can see, I started with about 5g of beer, when its all said and done, im going to be botteling about 4g of beer due to loss in transfer and sludge at the bottom of the wort, which you dont want in your beer.
Ive got my bottles ready to go. If you use just regular 12oz bottles, you need about 55 for a 5g batch. I have a mixed of pint bottles, 12oz bottles and
I have a 1/2g growler.
Take another rubbermaid and fill it about half way with warm water and a CAP FULL of bleach. Toss a few bottles in there.
This is to sanatize your bottles before you put your beer in them.
Once your bottles sit in there a few min's pull them out, dump everything out, and rinse a little bit.
From here its time to bottle. There are several ways to bottle your beer, all ranging from siphoning to a tap and a hose. Fill all of your bottles so you have about 1/2" to the cap and then put your cap on there.
one of my JKC (not AKC) doxins likes to help me out.
and then once your done filling your bottles, I put mine into a rubbermaid and then close the lid and put it in a dark cool closet. ANother reason I put my beer in a rubbermaid, your beer is now carbonating. If one of those caps arent on right, its gonna blow off and make a mess. The bottles in a rubbermaid will help contain the mess. Also, since you wanna store it in a dark area, a dark rubbermaid will help keep your brew in a dark area.
Now, give it about 2 weeks and crack one open and give it a taste.
08-30-2008, 12:44 AM
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Re: Junkyard Brewing part deux
looks easy but beer is cheap no? i would like to know as would the tool above me on how much a home brew setup is? Ever done a hmt beer? Bitter and 10 pounds turns you out lol
http://cgi.ebay.com/D-Series-10-Psi-...742.m153.l1262 right here you got a label nogs!
http://cgi.ebay.com/D-Series-10-Psi-...742.m153.l1262 right here you got a label nogs!
