Monday, January 31, 2011

Bottling Day

Slight change of plans. Yesterday Sunday January 30th, what my plan was, was to transfer our first batch over to our carboy to secondary fermentation. The only issue was, that we haven't seen any bubbling in our airlock for a couple of days now. So, what I did was take a hydrometer reading. It was exactly at 1.012, which is what we needed our FG reading to be (Final Gravity). So, we dissolved our bottling sugar in a pint of boiling water, added it to our bottling bucket, and slowly syphoned our fermented beer back into the bucket, which we had transferred to the carboy earlier. Once we had all the filtered beer in the bucket, we bottled and capped all of our beer. Now, we let the sugar we put into the mixture do it's thing and carbonate the beer. Now, we wait 10-14 days and we can enjoy!

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