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Bottling Question
Hi,
I have recently bought the woodfordes starter kit and am going to do the admirals reserve one first. i'd like to bottle some and have the rest in the keg you get.
am i better to bottle straight from the FV and put a little sugar in each bottle prior to capping then siphon the rest into the keg, or would i be better to create a syrup mix of sugar and boiled water and then add this to the keg and then siphon from the FV into the keg and bottle from the keg and leave the rest in it?
would this mean that the keg ale would be extra carbonated?
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Posted 10 months ago by Member
You can do either. The keg beer shouldn't be more carbonated as your sugar to beer ration would be the same in the keg as in the bottle.
However, if your FV is the one that still has the yeast bed and you're not syphoning into another, bottling FV, then I would pour your sugar mixture into the keg and syphon into the keg. Then bottle from the keg. This way you're not bottling direct from the primary FV which would kick up all the yeast bed.
When you make your sugar syrup, boil it for about 10 minutes to make sure it's sanitised.
Fermenting:
Condtioning:
Drinking: Twibute Clone, PJ Clone
Posted 10 months ago by Member
many thanks!
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