bottling it - lite

[Jaoqua]

i've read the bottling it sticky, and it looks good. but i don't have a bottling stick, a suitable length of tube or a vessel to prime with.

so, can i bottle just by sanitizing everything, putting 1/2 teaspoon of sugar in each bottle then filling each bottle from the fv tap or will this guarantee poor results.

[sorry about the lack of capitals etc. i just ran some bit of software that seems to have disabled the shift keys.]

[kenny850]

I think you could bottle as you describe but your running a huge risk of oxidising your beer-this will make the stuff undrinkable so for the few pence a length of siphoning tubing would cost i would regard this as the minimum, of course you can keep spending on bottling sticks etc.When you go and buy some tubing and siphon your beer,make sure the tube goes to the bottom of the bottle, again to minimise oxidation

[paulturner1974]

i just sanitize the bottles, add a teaspoon of suger for priming then syphon into bottles. the syphone tube has a little tap on teh end which is very handy indead but i always make sure i run the beer down the inside of the bottle. ive done 6 brews now no trouble with any of them

[Curious Brew]

I prime my TC using 30ml of apple juice direct into the bottle.

You could manually prime your beer using a solution of 80g sugar disolved in 150ml of water and just divide between the bottles.

I found a medicine measuring cup to be idea for this (a 30ml, graduated, clear plastic cap found on the top of some medicines).

Get some tubing though, no point risking oxidising the entire batch for the sake of a couple of quid.

[Jaoqua]

Thanks for your replies. As it happens I've got some 10mm tubing (8mm internally) which I used to transfer my last brew from FV to keg, but unfortunately it doesn't fit my keg tap, which is 14mm externally. The HBS doesn't have an appropriate adapter.

Do you all have tubing which fits in your taps?

Also, when I sanitized the FV I ran the VWP solution out through the tap, so the tap was sanitized at that point. But since then I've taken a few samples through the tap for sg readings etc. So the external parts of the tap have been covered in wort and left open to the air. Is there no danger that evil things will have grown there?

[vacant]

My FVs are fitted with water butt taps so I have an inch of garden hose pipe fitted which I stuff a bit of thinner transparent tube into, then my my bottling stick into that.

[paulturner1974]

i just have the tubing with a little filter jobbie on one end that gets lobbed into the drink and a little tap on the other it was a couple of quid from wilkos