StillSmart

How do you 2nd ferment/carbonate your beer/cider
at bottling/barreling time.

I use 350ml boiling water and 150g brew sugar in
a plastic jug. Then add 10ml to each 500ml bottle
by syringe or pour all into barrel.
leave in warm(20c) place for a week. Then move to
colder place for 2 weeks, then drink

I rack off the beer for the final time into a bottling bucket.
Into a glass jug, add 4.5 grams of table sugar per 1 litre of beer.
Add the minimum amount of hot water to dissolve, leave it to cool.
Then slowly pour into the bucket whilst stirring gently.
Bottle with a wand and leave the bottles for 3 weeks to condition, then into the fridge 2 days before drinking.
For my mini kegs, I add 10 grams of sugar per keg and leave to condition the same as bottles.

Cheers VT, forgot to mention I to
rack to a bottling bucket with bottler.
So very similar will use on mini kegs
next time.
I use brewing sugar because it dissolves
easier.

I'm kind of lazy.
100g of white granulated into a barrel, rack the best part of a warm 25 litre brew onto it.
Leave somewhere warm for at least three days.
In theory it then goes somewhere cool for three weeks.
In practise I like warm bitter, the only beer that I brew these days, so it stays somewhere warm.
If I don't drink it too fast it can get quite a way down the barrel before I need to crack the top and let air in.
Then I drink fast!
I know, I'm a Heathen!
No apologies.

Robert.

I use a zevro sugar dispenser. Set at 1/2 tsp. Brilliant. Takes seconds.

Hey Mash, that's a nice little gadget, I had to google it to see what it was, never heard of them before.

Funny you ask!

The good folks at get er brewed didn't have the beer kit I ordered last time so substituted it with a dearer one and a gift packet of muntons carbonation drops, which I have never used before.

I hope to sterilise and bottle tomorrow and there are 80 drops for 40 pints, so it shouldn't be too far above my intellectual capacity.

vino-tinto wrote:Hey Mash, that's a nice little gadget, I had to google it to see what it was, never heard of them before.

They seem to be a well kept secret. Run nicely. Beer bottling really is easy. I keep my bottles with a splash of spirit in them. So they don't need washing up either.