CO2 Injection

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tightbarsteward

CO2 Injection

Post by tightbarsteward » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:06 pm

Just about to start bottling my brew and looking at Crown Caps bottling advice I realised I dont have any equipment to inject co2. I know my local chemist has the canisters but what methods do people use for releasing the gas? Crown Cap uses some soda stream bottle plus adapter but god knows where I would obtain one of them & I'm in a bit of a rush now. Wanted to bottle tonight!!!

Help :?
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garwatts

Re: CO2 Injection

Post by garwatts » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:09 pm

tightbarsteward wrote:Just about to start bottling my brew and looking at Crown Caps bottling advice I realised I dont have any equipment to inject co2. I know my local chemist has the canisters but what methods do people use for releasing the gas? Crown Cap uses some soda stream bottle plus adapter but god knows where I would obtain one of them & I'm in a bit of a rush now. Wanted to bottle tonight!!!

Help :?
Prime each bottle with 1/2 teaspoon of sugar (assuming 500ml bottles) 8) and natural conditioning will supply your carbonation :wink:
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tightbarsteward

Re: CO2 Injection

Post by tightbarsteward » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:46 pm

garwatts wrote: Prime each bottle with 1/2 teaspoon of sugar (assuming 500ml bottles) 8) and natural conditioning will supply your carbonation :wink:
I realise that, it's too much air coming into contact with my beer while in the bottling bucket after being transfered from the FV that concerns me. Crown Cap deals with the problem by squirting some co2 into the bottling bucket
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garwatts

Re: CO2 Injection

Post by garwatts » Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:52 pm

Try this :wink:
http://www.18000feet.com/how/bottling.htm
and
http://www.18000feet.com/how/bottle.htm
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Barm

Re: CO2 Injection

Post by Barm » Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:34 pm

mate, that small amount of air in contact with your beer for such a short duration will have absolutely zero effect - trust us. Squirting CO2 around is a total waste of time (and gas) - CO2 injection is only used for kegged beers, to replace gas lost after quantities of beer are drawn off. garwatts advice is the right stuff: no other precautions needed (apart from the usual sanitization of course).
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tightbarsteward

Re: CO2 Injection

Post by tightbarsteward » Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:56 pm

Barm wrote:mate, that small amount of air in contact with your beer for such a short duration will have absolutely zero effect - trust us. Squirting CO2 around is a total waste of time (and gas) - CO2 injection is only used for kegged beers, to replace gas lost after quantities of beer are drawn off. garwatts advice is the right stuff: no other precautions needed (apart from the usual sanitization of course).
Good, thats all I needed to know.

Cheers for all your replies
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