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The process of moving beer or wine in to bottles and sealing them for later consumption.

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Using Grolsch "Premium Lager" bottles for bottling

In my first bottling, I decided I wanted to try using half normal reused glass bottles with new bottle caps and half reused Grolsch beer bottles. Probably the worst part of the process was having to drink the Grolsch beers. They are horrible and…
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Will bottling by pouring negatively impact the flavor of my beer?

This is my second homebrew. I used a friend's siphoning equipment and bottle filler for my first batch, then got my own. This second batch is a pumpkin spice porter. It fermented for a week, and I racked to a carboy second vessel for a week. …
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What is the cheapest food safe metal tube I can use for a counter pressure bottle filler?

I’ve all the parts to make counter pressure bottle filler (CPBF) except a 8mm outside diameter tube which will be in contact with the beer. I do have dip tubes in my Cornelius kegs, but before cutting one of those to size (and ordering a replacement…
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Beeswax for bottle waxing

Has anyone tried making their own bottling wax using part beeswax? What percentage of beeswax did you use and how well did it work (coming on and coming off)?
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Bottling and Caps are loose

my first attempt at brewing is going well. Everything was going well, I went to check the amount of sediment in the bottles beer. With a gentle turn, the beer was leaking out the top. I noticed this in 10 or 11 of 67 bottles. This was 5 days after…
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Bottling a Doom Bar clone at high SG

Bonjour, I have brewed a Doom Bar clone. I was aiming at an Original gravity of 1.045 but only managed 1.041. Unfortunately I lost temperature in the ferment and it stuck at 1.020 after 7 days and has remained here. I heated it up and stirred but no…
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Why is my keg bottled beer going flat

Here is my bottling process. Cold crash, keg, purge air, force carbonate while cold. Sit a few days while serving in the kegerator and the carbonation is fine. Time to bottle some to take to competition. Reused brown bottles are cleaned and…
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Filter paper pre bottling

G'day gang, Pretty new to brewing (second batch on the ferment now). Just wondering if it would be ok to pass the fermented beer through filter paper before bottling? I've got filter paper like the ones used in coffee percolator. Cheers!
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Cloudy beer after bottling?

We have just made our first brew - an all grain pale ale. As per recipe we left it fermenting for a week, syphoned into a separate bucket, adding the priming sugar and then bottled. The beer is cloudy!! Would like to know why this might be and if…
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Is my Cider ready to bottle

ok my question is this i have bought a cider kit on the instructions it says to bottle after 7 days or when it reads 1010 on the hydrometer , my OG was 1072 and i have left it for seven days and it is now reading 1030 i have kept it at a constant…
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Storing home brew

I was wondering if I could store my finished home brew in a fermenting bucket that has a spout on the side. Of course not the same one it was fermented in but a clean one. Will it hold its carbonation? Was thinking might be simalor to a 2 l. pop…
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Secondary fermentaton objectives

I recently racked to a secondary, an amber ale of grain and extract of my own recipe after fermentation seemed complete. Am I doing my ale a favor by doing this and will it increase clarity and flavor? The taste and aroma are exactly what I'm…
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Heinken bottles.

Has anyone used these bottles and recaped them with home brew? Not sure if they use twist off caps or the regular pry-offs.
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Bottling in Aluminum Coors Light Pint Cans?

I have several aluminum Coors Light Pint cans with screw-top caps. I haven't tried to bottle with them yet. Has anyone else successfully bottled in these cans? Thanks.
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Bottling in steel growlers

I want to bottle and carbonate in flip-top steel growlers. How long do you think the beer stays fresh? Any other problems that might arise?
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