Easy Home Brewing FAQ Sept 6 09

Some often asked questions about brewing home brew beer.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• home
• brew
• beer
• fermenter
• airlock
• sanitizing
• sanitizer

[rappy90]

Rather than add the bottling sugar to each bottle, did you ever simply boil a bit of water, dissolve the sugar in that, add it to your bucket all at once, then bottle it? Nobel Grape's instructions suggested I use the secondary for a week or os, then put it back into the primary, then add the sugar, then bottle. But if I could add the sugar to the bucket without the secondary, I may do that if you think that would be okay.

[CraigTube]

@rappy90 Because I only do Primary, I can't "batch prime" as it's called because you'll end up stirring all the sediment into the beer when you add the sugar. Batch prime your secondary, or once you get it into your bottling bucket. In my strong opinion, DON'T bottle clear beer. It has very little yeast in it and it will take months to carbonate. You need yeast to carbonate. So I would do primary for10 days, then secondary for however long, add your boiled sugar and bottle the cloudy beer.

[hardjewl]

Craig keep up the Videos, watching you has helped me get started home-brewing Beer and Wine. I have a question, I recently bottled a batch of American Cream Pale Ale from Mid-west brewing. I left it in the fermenting bucket for about 3 weeks before racking it over to my Bottling bucket and then bottling. It looked good and tasted pretty good, do you think it will be ok after I let it sit for a week or 2, or have I ruined it? Thanks in advance for any help, great Vids, keep them coming!

[CraigTube]

@hardjewl Na, it will be fine. If it tasted ok when you bottled, it will taste better in a week or two. If you sanitized everything, the beer will keep for up to a year or more.

[Nikolai4o1]

About plastic bottles... I like beer with a lot of carbonification... Plastics dont deliver that kind of quality for me because they expand... Yes they are safetly method, but i like glass in that reason very much...

[shmurbs]

sanitize question...iodine sanitizer, 20 minute contact time...starsan, 5 minute contact time...peroxyacetic acid, 2 minute contact time....don't rinse anything...let it be!

[shmurbs]

the beer supplies question...midwest brew supplies.com...been with them for over a decade. great price, great service

[shmurbs]

it seems as thought the question about the secondary fermentation didn't strike point. here's an example why some...not all...but some brewers do a secondary fermentaion is that when brewers sell beer over seas...it comes to the customer fresher. the secondary fermentation is done in the bottle and the 2 weeks it takes to carbonate...that's basically the travel time to the store shelf. i do agree that its unnecessary as a homebrewer....i force carbonate. haven't looked back.

[MrPatriot3579]

Great video Craig.Haha I was also drinking Coopers English Bitter bottled in 750ml plastic bottles while watching it.I made mine with the kit & a bag of dry malt extract not sure of the quantity,the salesman at Brewers Co-op Penrose,Auckland suggested it to me.I've drunk half the batch & it tastes better with every bottle,I only bottled it 15 days ago.It's so good I'm gonna buy it again this weekend.Cheers Craig

[wellard1000]

Top tips, just pulled out the kit i got for xmas & have started my first batch of Woodfords Admirals Reserve to test as a noob. Fingers crossed.

[mrg00ddude]

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