Bottling a batch of Home Brew Beer

A lot of new brewers study up and get as far as brewing a batch of beer and freak out when it comes time to bottle it. I hope to explain some of the little details here.

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• bottling
• beer
• homebrewing
• homebrew

[duvallrobbie]

Hi, Thanks for the video - very useful.

Why do you brew the beer in one keg, and then transfer to another keg to bottle the beer? Why not just put a tap on the brewing keg and bottle straight from that?

Thanks

[BobbyFromNJ]

@duvallrobbie

If you bottled out of the primary fermenter, you'd have to mix in the priming sugar solution and that would kick up a lot of yeast sediment that would make it into the bottles. You could use individual portions of sugar in each bottle, but that's much more hassle than simply doing a transfer to a bottling bucket.

[Ironchefgabe]

Coors light in the background? Really?

[BobbyFromNJ]

@Ironchefgabe

No, not really. That's a box that held my empty bottles and it happens to say Coors light on it.

[lacrosse89621]

When using the dish washer rack, should you rinse the dishwasher first or should everything be ok as long as the bottles have been sanitized enough?

[BobbyFromNJ]

@lacrosse89621

If you've just run a cycle with dishes, the rack is probably clean enough though it wouldn't hurt to spray it down with starsan just to be safe.

[fatboy1271]

Thanks for the tip on using the dish washer as a catch for overfilling... I can't believe how simple an idea that is; yet, I would never have thought of it!

Does anyone bleach their bottles or just use a sanitizer solution?

[johndawson420]

attach a bottle filler to the spigot of your bottling bucket. it makes things easier and forces out all the oxygen from he bottle.

[johndawson420]

@iceavro or use 100 % pure maple syrup

[johndawson420]

@iceavro google online homebrew shop and find a good one close to you they have everything you need for everything.

[iceavro]

where can i get corn sugar or dextrose?

[ahiJabo]

you do not filtrate your beer? I was told I´ve to use Diatomaceous earth filter to get a good beer... what´s your opinion?... thanks a lot for the video... sorry for the broken english.

[luminairesband]

Great help, thanks! :)

[fatboy1271]

@kaput450 Thanks for the reply! I am actually bottling tonight for the first time in 2 years... I went on vacation, but I assume there will be no issues with leaving my beer in secondary for a couple weeks?

[kaput450]

@duvallrobbie helps remove sediment.

[kaput450]

@fatboy1271 I use bleach to sanitize, cheap and havent had a problem yet.