Hi, I'm Mark Emiley on behalf of Expert Village.
In this next segment, we are going to be talking
about what we need to be doing to get ready
for bottling besides just cleaning our bottles.
Now that our bottles are soaking in their
sanitation solution, we're going to focus
on taking a specific gravity from our beer.
So, this is going to be our final gravity
measurement. We're going to use our sterilized
thief and take a sample. With our final gravity
measurement, we are aiming for something that
is roughly twenty-five percent of what we
started with. So if we had a beer that started
with a 1.040, we are going to be aiming for
something that is 1.010, or twenty-five percent
less. If it's a little above this or a little
below this, don't worry, you are still going
to be fine. One tip on taking your measurement
is, right before you take it, give it a little
tap and that will knock some of the little
bubbles off and give you a more accurate measurement.
After you've taken your final specific gravity
measurement, you can subtract that from your
original gravity measurement and multiply
the result by one-hundred and thirty-one and
that will give you your final alcohol content
in "Alcohol by volume." Now we are going to
start worrying about getting our priming sugar
and our bottle caps ready to be used. So,
we are going to start heating enough water
to cover up about sixty bottle caps. And for
the priming sugar, we are going to add about
a pint of water into This will a nice small
pot and start heating that up. When we get
ready, we are going to be adding three-quarters
of a cup of priming sugar. give us our carbonation.
When we've gotten our bottle cap sterilizing
water to a boil, we are going to add our bottle
caps and boil them for roughly five to ten
minutes to sterilize them. When your primer
sugar water is boiling, your going to add
your priming sugar and stir it in so that
it forms a solution. And you're going to want
this to boil for about five minutes to sterilize.
After that, you're going to want to put a
lid on it. With your priming sugar ready and
covered off to the side, we're next going
to start siphoning into our bottling bucket
the way that I showed you in the earlier segment.
As the beer begins to flow in you add your
primering sugar water gently to the bottom.
As the water or as the beer siphoning in this
would mix in the primer and sugar given it
a nice solution. You can cover it up with
the lid it provide a little extra protection
to the dust. Now that it is all dissolved
into our bottling bucket we are going to put
the lid for sure and then lift it up put it
over and cover now we are about ready for
bottling.
