From: ulick@angelico.helios.nd.edu (Ulick Stafford)
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.brewing
Subject: Re: Misc. Questions
Keywords: priming, carbonation, sterilization
Date: 8 Sep 92 14:31:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Sep8.143140.20011
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

In article <7SEP199221015111@cl2.cl.uh.edu> CSCI180B@cl.uh.edu writes:
>
>1)  How much care should I give in sterilizing my bottles while bottling?
>I've tried the standard bleach solution but its kind of a pain finding a
>place to soak 50+ bottles at one time.  Then I feel uneasy about simply

Don't you have a bath tub, or do you just have a shower uniy?

>dumping out the solution without water-rinsing the bottle to remove as
>much bleach as possible.  But on the other hand I wonder if the tap water
>can introduce any living nasties that I've tried to eradicate with the 
>bleach.  

Rinsing with tap water is fine.  I bought a short scrap hose that I
connect to my laundery tub - much cheaper and more versatile than one
of those brass gizmos.

>3)  All of my friends like to drink my beer and I don't mind taking a cold 
>case to a party once in a while.  But, it never fails that someone says "Hey
>So-in-so, come try some Bill Beer!".  Now the problem:  It also never fails
>that if I don't pour, someone dumps the entire bottle into a glass, yeast 
>fallout and all.  Therefore, I would like to attempt artificial carbonation
>or some other way to avoid priming in the bottles.  Does anyone do this with 
>success?  I know its not the "pure" way to brew but I'd like to try something
>to keep my bottles yeast free.  Let's assume that I have keg equipment.
>

What do you mean pure way of brewing?  If I had freezing equipment I'd
cold filter.  Nearly all commercial brewers do.   One way you can use 
that I think I read in Stew's Brew
info is to put 4 bottles in the freezer till they get good and cold, but
not quite frozen.  The carefully syphon the beer into 3 frozen empty bottles
and cap. The cold temperatures will retain the carbonation and you will get them
off the sediment.  This would be a bit of a pain in the butt normally.
Let your friends get the extra B vitamins :-).

>4)  My wife unfortunately doesn't drink beer.  Never has.  She has never even
>tasted my brew.  She sometimes drinks wine and once in a while a blended 
>drink.  How can I get her to try my beer?  Now the $64,000 question:  How do
>I get her to LIKE my beer?

A friend recently brought back a malt liquor based cooler from Canada
called Durango (made by Molson).  It was peach flavor and tasted much
better than the sickly sweet wine coolers.  It might be good to try on 
someone who doesn't like beer, but I have never seen thos product or an
equivalent here.


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