A question for experianced beer brewers?!
also, according to the book "Brewing Quality Beers" It says
siphon the beer into a boiling pot or plastic bucket.....
Do I heat up the beer and then add the priming suger before bottling?
thanks, Please Email me at dougclement11@hotmail.com because I need some advice
Answers: I'm a total beginner, when you get done fermenting the beer and it is ready for bottling, do you poor the priming suger (after boiling it for 5 minutes, and cooling it) directly into the wort?
also, according to the book "Brewing Quality Beers" It says
siphon the beer into a boiling pot or plastic bucket.....
Do I heat up the beer and then add the priming suger before bottling?
thanks, Please Email me at dougclement11@hotmail.com because I need some advice
Once the brew is done fermenting, what you will want to do is dissolve the priming sugar in a little water, and put this in the bottom of your bottling bucket. Then siphon the brew onto that, and then bottle.
I recommend this site:
http://www.allaboutbeer.com/homebrew/rec...
It is fairly informative.Just remember, at no point in the process should you(or anyone else) add urine to the beer. You would end up with Coors light, and I think they have a patent on that.
Do NOT heat up the beer. It will kill the remaining living yeast cells that are needed to carbonate the beer.
Just add the priming sugar (with it's boiled water) to the bottling bucket.
Place the priming sugar in a pot and add just enough water to dissolve it. Boil until the solution is clear. If you leave it to cool, you risk contamination. If youare doing the standard 5-gal. batch, the cool wort will only be slightly warmed by the sugar solution. Never boil the wort. The only reason for using a boiling pot is that it may have a tap near the bottom, like your bottling bucket.
Welcome to the club.
Check out John Palmer's www.howtobrew.com and www.beertribe.com
In the mean time, boil up a cup of water with 3/4 cup of priming sugar (for a 5 gallon batch). Pour this mix into a medium (usually a bottling bucket) large enough to hold the fermented beer and siphon the fermented beer from the fermenter. Do not siphon up the solids on the bottom of the fermenter (this is called trub and it's used up yeast and stuff). Try to minimize splashing because you do not want to aerate the beer; which may cause off flavors. The boiled water/priming sugarwill mix with the fermented beer enough during the transfer from fermenter to bottling medium to do its job. If your bottling bucket has a faucet at the bottom, utilize it to fill your bottles to mid-neck level and cap. Otherwise, you will need to achieve another siphon to bottle.