First Bottling Day
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Published 2017-05-08
Make sure all your equipment is clean and sanitized. I used, a bottling bucket with spigot, hydrometer, beer thief, auto siphon, hose, bottle filler, bottles, caps, and 2 cups water with 5 oz of priming sugar from my local home brew store.
The priming sugar is pure corn sugar and breaks down easily by yeast. Sugar you get from the grocery store is probably either beet sugar or cane sugar and can leave hidden tastes in your beer, just fyi.
I dissolved the sugar in the water at a boil and added this mixture to the bottling bucket to cool. While that was happening I was making sure all the bottles and caps were clean and sanitized. Then I siphoned out the beer from the fermenter into the bottling bucket making sure that the hose caused a whirlpool to mix the sugar with the beer.
Then I attached the bottle filler to the hose and filled each bottle to the very brim. (Some overflowed a little bit.) When I removed the bottle filler, the bottles were about 1" from the top of the bottle. Perfect. Then I capped each bottle with a sanitized cap and boxed them up. That's it.
Assuming this batch has the same OG as the second batch (1.054) and with a final gravity of 1.020 that makes this beer a 4.46% ABV Hefeweizen. According to my Visual Guide on Beer Styles chart, this is still quite high for a final gravity for this style of beer. There might still be fermentable sugars available so make sure to check the FG a few times and look for readings that are the same 2 days in a row.
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Wow, 2017 and no one else has given you a thumbs up. That's quite a feat & deserves more views. I'll do as you suggest & leave 6 pack or two a bit longer to age. Bottling day for me is Monday, 7/22/19 and will be my first.
