Carrying beer in bottles

[Hogarth]

I'm just about to go and visit my old man, and I thought I'd take up a couple of bottles of my first AG.

My question is: it's been bottled for a month and has cleared nicely (I didn't use finings except for Irish moss) but after it's been lugged around in my bag and shaken about on rural trains etc, will it be uncleared by the time I get there? And if so, how long must I leave it to settle again?

[anomalous_result]

It can also be dependent on the yeast. I've used s04 and found it to be very good at sticking to the bottom (verging on too good) but it will still rise if agitated. It took 24-48 hours before it was albright again. It depends how fussy you are

[Madbrewer]

If you have used 1 or 2L PETS, try chilling as cold as you can and siphoning the contents into 500ml pets or pint bottles leaving the sediment behind.

Has anyone had success doing this? I found the beer just turned into foam in the syphon tube.

[roger the dog]

I transported 4 bottles of various brews, all done with S-04, 100 odd miles this weekend in the car boot, held in a wine bottle carrier & the yeast stuck to the bottom of the bottle like sh*t to a blanket

[agentgonzo]

Instead of siphoning it, you could try the same trick that wine makers use to get the yeast sediment out of the champagne bottles.

Condition in an upside down bottle with the cork in. Every so often, agitate the bottle so that any yeast stuck to the sides of the bottle drops to the top (bottom!) and rests on the cork.

Freeze the beer which will push out the cork and the solid yeast plug. Reinsert the cork, put the bottle the correct way and thaw.

[anomalous_result]

I thought they knocked the end off and redid the neck for champers, or is that just when you open it wit ha knife? Either way I'd thought about it and wondered whether the cardigans would call it 'real' heh.

[agentgonzo]

I thought they knocked the end off and redid the neck for champers, or is that just when you open it wit ha knife? Either way I'd thought about it and wondered whether the cardigans would call it 'real' heh.

Knocking the end off with a knife or sword is only done when you're going to drink it. There's no way to re-attach the neck of a broken bottle safely without reforging the entire bottle. Especially if it's going to contain high pressure safely

[stevezx7r]

I had read this one somewhere too. The difference being first the wine (beer) was condition/carbed upside down using a bottle with hollow cork. The sediment does it's job but stays in the cork. Once it's done that you fill a container with water, ice and salt and place the bottle upside down for 10 mins then remove the cork once the cork area is frozen and it shouldn't fiz up too much. Remove sediment and replace with new cork.

[awalker]

If you have used 1 or 2L PETS, try chilling as cold as you can and siphoning the contents into 500ml pets or pint bottles leaving the sediment behind.

Has anyone had success doing this? I found the beer just turned into foam in the syphon tube.

Try chilling the siphon tube as well.
If possible chill the bottles of beer, the empty bottles and the siphon tube to the same ish temperature. I chuck them all in the same fridge overnight..

Otherwise the beer hits the warm tube and the CO2 starts breaking out and causing foaming. It has worked for me you can still gets some foaming, but it is greatly reduced.