October 29, 2016

The 1st bottling

A week later, the 1st fermentation was over. FG was 1.016 at 15c. When I checked the gravity days ago, it was 1.020. I cannot wait anymore. Today I will bottle this one.
Sanitize a spoon, a hopper, a bottle filler, bottle caps and plastic bottles. Decided to not dry inside bottles perfectly. I hoped that a few drops of no rinse sanitizer might spoil nothing.
Put the airlock off, looking at the fermented wort. Found no bubbles on the surface. The airlock without any movement made me nervous for a whole week. My thought went beyond the wildest nightmare. I was suffering the imagination that I had to pour 14 liters of the polluted wort into the sink every night.
In home brewing communities, so many people talk differently about how much priming sugar is needed for a 1-liter bottle. The extract can I used was for 20 liters of wort. I made 14 liters. There must be too much sugar in it. 5 grams of priming sugar won't be any problem. (Actually, there IS a problem, though)
Someone advised denting a plastic bottle by pinching it to avoid bottle exploding with too much gas. I did as I was said. I have 13 and a half bottle of young beer now. Room temperature is 21. Hope to see bottles will be stone hard soon.

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