Friday, December 14, 2007

Bottling/Brewing plan

Here's how I plan to bottle my current brew as well as pitch my next on the same day:

1 - Sanitize a big cooking spoon and two clear pint jars with screw on lids in dishwasher with same load of bottles to be used.

2 - Assemble bottling bucket and fill with star-san (no rinse, 2 minute sanitizer).

3 - Attach hose/filler and run santizer through hose into a plastic bucket (also fill transfer hose for fermentor) . Let hoses/filler sit filled with sanitizer for 2 minutes. Then finish draining into bucket.

4 - Transfer to bottling bucket using drum tap and transfer hose, cover bottling bucket with aluminum foil.

5 - Open fermentor and scoop out 2 pints of yeast/trub into santized jars, seal, and refrigerate. Leave remaining yeast/trub to pitch onto (will still be way more than enough).

6 - Wipe off crud ring in fermentor and on lid with star san paper towel. Seal back up.

7 - Bottle and cap.

8 - Brew as normal except pitch directly onto remaining yeast/trub in fermentor. Stand back as it hopefully with explode into a wild nasty fermentation!

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