Topic: Bottling

Designing Bottle Labels

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With the holiday season here, it’s probably crossed your mind that homebrew makes a great gift for family, friends, co-workers and anyone else who wound up on the “nice” list this year.


Counter-Pressure Bottling

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The main challenges of counter-pressure bottling are to retain the beer’s carbonation and minimize its exposure to oxygen during the transfer. When performed correctly, almost all of a beer’s carbonation is retained when it is counter-pressure bottled. Likewise, with a little practice, the beer can be transferred with minimal exposure to oxygen. Learn how with pointers found here.


Counterpressure Bottle Filler

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Kegging is convenient. it eliminates the bottling process, and cuts out days of carbonating time. When you bring a keg to a friend’s house, however, you’re bringing a lot of beer. The


Post Fermentation and Packaging

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After fermentation, the beer needs to be packaged into bottles or kegs. The beer must also be carbonated to the correct level. For the best results, the beer should be exposed to as little oxygen as possible during the transfer and subsequent storage. Minimizing oxygen uptake by the finished beer will prolong its shelf life.


Bottling Vs. Kegging

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New homebrewers spend a lot of time considering the style of beers they want to brew, but another question to consider early in the process is what to do with your beer after it’s done. With respect to Shakespeare, “To bottle or to keg, that is the question.” Both have their advantages and drawbacks. Financial


Bottle Cleaning/Sanitizing Rack

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Most homebrewers would agree that the better part of brewing beer at home is spent cleaning and sanitizing equipment. A lot of dedication goes into every batch and after waiting weeks for


Build a Better Bottle Capper

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One thing I really like about the homebrewing hobby is that it allows me to build various gadgets and equipment that I can use in my basement brewery. I am constantly thinking of ideas that will either make a process easier or at least make it more enjoyable. Recently I came up with a project


Bottle Filling Station

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Take your bottling process to the next level


Counter-Pressure Filling Techniques

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One of the first tasks in homebrewing I’ve noticed that homebrewer’s get bored with is cleaning bottles . . . and filling bottles . . . and then waiting for bottles to carbonate. Pretty much the entire bottling process. Everyone who has been brewing a while has left a beer a little longer than needed


Carbonation Priming Chart

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The amount of carbonation in bottle-conditioned homebrew is dependent on two things — the residual level of carbon dioxide after fermentation and the amount of carbonation obtained from the priming sugar. To


Bottling & Kegging

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There are two popular options when it comes to packaging homebrew — bottling and kegging. For many, choosing between the two is a classic case of time vs. money. Bottling is fairly


Bottling Temperature

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If this beer was properly fermented, it should have been completely fermented before you chilled it. The most reliable method to know whether a fermentation is done is to compare the specific gravity of your batch to that of a forced fermentation on the same wort. A forced fermentation is basically performed by taking a


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