Illustrated Beer Brewing Primer
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Saving YeastIf you would like to save some yeast for your next batch, have your sanitized bottles or jars ready. Put the siphon tube into a bottle and give the carboy a good swirl, then pump the bottle about half full of sludge. Repeat with the remaining bottles. Usually you can get about four bottles worth of yeast. When you are done, cap the bottles, wash them and sanitize them. Store them in the refrigerator. You may want to check them after a week to make sure that they are not getting under too much pressure. Use a bottle opener, and lift the cap just enough to hear the air pressure, then let it down again. I have not had any bottles with high pressure, however if your fermentation were not complete, there could be enough fermentables in the sludge to cause a bottle bomb.
Note: the bottles in this picture have not been capped yet.
Clean up: put a half gallon or so of water in the carboy and cover the opening with your hand. Slosh it around a bit and pour it out. Repeat a few times. Fill the carboy completely and let it soak for a few minutes. Take a bottle brush and clean the foam line around the top. Pour the water out, and do a few more half gallon fills and sloshing rinses. When it is clean, pour the sanitizing solution into the carboy and slosh it around. Pour the solution back into the sanitizing bucket. Clean up the stopper and blowoff tube. Push the stopper up against the faucet outlet, and turn on the hot water to rinse out the blowoff tube under pressure. Sanitize the blowoff tube for 15 minutes, then cap the carboy with the stopper and blowoff tube. Rinse the siphon well, and pump hot water through the siphon. Then pump sanitizing solution through the siphon. Clean up any other equipment you have. Set the corny keg in a position where it will be easy to transfer to the next keg without moving or bumping the corny keg at all. Let it stand two weeks before transferring to the clarifying keg. Next
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Illustrated Beer Brewing PrimerIngredients :: Equipment :: Preparation :: Steeping :: Sanitation :: Mash Out :: Add Extract :: Boil :: Bittering Hops :: Wort Chiller :: Flavor Hops :: Aroma Hops :: Chill Wort :: Remove Chiller :: Aerate :: Carboy :: Pitch Yeast :: Cap :: Cool the Carboy :: Fermenting :: Corny Keg Rebuild :: Racking :: Reusing Yeast :: Transferring Beer :: Carbonation :: Prost! |
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