Home brewing the easy way part 3

Bottling a batch of Home Brew.

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[mauromalatesta]

Hey Craig

Learned a lot with your videos, I'm just about to start my very own first "production"

Let me just ask you something:

wouldn't it be easier / would it work if you mix the sugar with a little water before putting it in the bottles?

awesome vids \o/

[CraigTube]

@mauromalatesta I've never heard of that, but you can siphon the beer into a secondary container then mix the right amount of boiled, cooled sugar in before bottling.

[fearcrest]

Hi Craig,

I noticed my kit tells me to do a secondary fermentation (Which I did not see on your 4 part video), Would it be easier just to leave my beer in the carboy and have a blow off tube for the primary fermentation then airlock at light fermentation?

Thanks

[CraigTube]

@fearcrest Secondary is not necessary. Just leave it in primary for a couple of weeks, then bottle.

[vaughner11]

hi Craig. been watchin your videos for a while now. Ive been tryin to save my money a little by recycling glass bottles.. the problem im runnning into is .. im a little scared about them breaking after ive sealed them .. i was just wondering what the proper amount of sugar you think would be to add to 12 ounce bottles during the bottling process so they wont shatter.. THank you! cheers

[CraigTube]

@vaughner11 It's about 1/2 tsp per bottle. Cheers.

[Sjaak27]

Craig, great vids congrats on the work and your expertise. One thing though; how do you make beer like the egyptians did it or the mesopatamians: without the buy-it-ready-to make- stuff? I mean guys in prison are so inventive with pruno and stuff, I just would like absolutely something non industrial. Hope you don't take my remarks as criticism, once again loved the work. Cheers from The Netherlands.

[eagle0468]

@mauromalatesta Some people like to use a pinch or two of dry malt instead of suger. It seems to provide the yeast a little more nutrition to create an adequate amount of CO2.

[34methylenedioxy]

Craig, are you Canadian? Love your video. I am going to school for biochemistry and I love beer so this seems like it would be fun to me.

[metalitia4]

wait 2 weeks before bottling!

[cherrycoke119]

Damn straight I got here from Workaholics!

[loknfwrd]

@bigsammieking I'm not craig, but I have bottled beer in used 2L soda bottles. I put in 6 coopers drops per bottle and it turned out as well as any of the others. keep on brewing, it's a lot of fun.

[bigsammieking]

@bigsammieking and how much sugar would you add to these big "woppers" ?

[bigsammieking]

Craig what would ya think about using old 40 ounce bottles with the screw on tap?(trust me once they was opened we'd drink it all)

[tbreebo]

thankyou so much, gona try brewing, I really a dark hefe wiessen, will the plastic bottles handle the carbonation ? Thanks again excellent teaching vidio, I wasr gona try and get aold of a cooper kit, I was also gona try a williams sonoma kit its is only one gallon kit. but to try to get the steps and te feel of things. I can't wait to get started!!