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Christmas Presents

1 year ago | LeeEnfield (Member)

I was looking to bottle an ale for christmas to give to my mates as presents any suggestions.

I have Wherry in the barrel now and thought I would try something else may be a st peters.

Also any tips on bottling to achieve perfection or as close as a numpty like me might get.

Much appreciated

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Nath:

Posted 1 year ago by Moderator

Batch prime the beer and use a bottling stick, also if they are new bottles and clean a non rinse sanitiser such as videne or star san will make life a lot easier. Have a search for batch or bulk priming.

Ta,

Nath

Drinkin' - nowt, it's all gone

Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!

nathbrew@gmail.com

saracen:

Posted 1 year ago by Moderator

Yes. Nath's quite right.
Only other thing is..... you will need my address to send it.
Happy Xmas

If you're not living on the edge..... you're taking up too much space!!

Planning: - To get some more brews on now the weather's a bit cooler
Fermenting: - Ginger Beer experiment
Conditioning: - A normal bitter with Styrians
Drinking: - All of it!!

E-mail: arnyfris@gmail.com

Nath:

Posted 1 year ago by Moderator

lol, alllllriiigggggghhhhhttttt!

Drinkin' - nowt, it's all gone

Plannin'-
Loads a beer after an upgrade!

nathbrew@gmail.com

LeeEnfield:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Thanks for the advice nath, I bottled up last night, bit of a mess really as I did not batch prime and did not have a bottling stick, I think in my fumblings I lost about 2.5 pints mostly to the kitchen floor.

I did try a half straight from the fermentor syphon and it was ok so hopefully after the sugar has done its bit in the bottles it should be great.

My final question was how long should I keep the bottles at room temperature to get the second stage going before I move them to the cold room of the house

thanks again

Neil:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Lee,

I've been there believe me.... first time i bottled my beer i ended up with more on me than inside after being drunk. I've now bought some PET Coopers bottles bought from this website and a 25ltr fermation bucket with a tap on it. The opening of the bottle is just big enough to put over the tap and hey presto no more mess apart from the odd drip.

Rule of thumb reference time left to be drunk it's roughly 1 week per abv %. So if the beer came out at 4% then 4 weeks before being drunk and so on...But sneaking a bottle here and there doesn't do any harm either i mean you have to taste these things of course.

Oh just realised what your original question was doh! I leave my bottles for a couple of days in a warm place then follow the above. It's worked for me so far.

You'll know when the secondary fermentation is working because the bottles are harder than Chuck Norris! We all no how hard he is too.

Neil

LeeEnfield:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

Thanks for the advice Neil,

I have those glass bottles so is there any other way I can tell that the fermentation is going on, or hope for the best and pray they do not explode

Chuck Norris is possibly the second hardest man alive after steven segal

Jim:

Posted 1 year ago by Member

it's a good job Chuck Norris isn't alive otherwise he'd be coming after you with a comment like that! :-)

Planning: One of the GW Mild recipes
Fermenting: GW London Pride clone
Conditioning: GW Bathams clone & elderflower champagne
Drinking: shop bought bottles

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