Hello! This is Dan Franklin from HopTech Homebrewing Company in Dublin, California.
I’m here today to show you how to brew your own beer at home and what we’ve done so far is we’ve cooked our beer, we’ve chilled it, we’ve fermented it, and now we’re getting ready to bottle your home brew.
Okay we’ve successfully transferred it into our bottling bucket. At this point, we’re going to change lids. We’re going to add our priming sugar, dissolve our priming sugar. Put it into our bottles and carbonate and drink it. So I’m going to move this down just to make it a little easier on myself. I will grab my lid, add some sanitizer to it. Okay we now have our ready to go and we’re going to hook up our tube and we’re going to move but first, we’re going to take our priming sugar and take some hot water. You want it to be able to dissolve your priming sugar. So once again, grab a spoon, take the sugar, stir it in. This is a quarter of a pound of corn sugar. Just three quarters of a cup, it does perfect for five gallons of beer. Stir it up nice. I did dunk my spoon in the sanitizer to get a nice drink.
Okay, I’m going to go ahead and pour it into my beer. Lid back on, get my spoon once again, I’m going to add a little extra sanitizer to it just to get it nice and sanitized. Okay, put a little of this. I’m using like I say IDO 4. IDO 4 is odorless and tasteless and it does a great job okay. Take that sit that on, stir my priming sugar in. If you want to get a nice picture of this, got a nice—it smells good too. Smells like really nice beer. Stir it up and we put the lid back on, hold that over the sink. Been a little subtle for just a short period of time, not too longest time, we’re not trying to settle it, just trying to mix it up. I am going to turn around and I’m going to pick my bucket, and carefully lift it on top of my sink. And I’m going to attach my hose which is sitting in the sanitizer. Just rinse that right in here.
For today’s demonstration I’m just going to bottle a couple—sanitize a couple of bottles. They want to be sanitized as well. These have been washed, they’ve been sanitized once but I’m going to just give them one more shot of sanitizer. Okay, add just a little bit more sanitizer, mix it and just put our bottles in the sanitizer and make sure you submerge it nice and neat. Get it nice inside and out. I also put my caps in the sanitizer. My hands are in contact with the sanitizer and I’m going to put my tubing in the sanitizer as well as my bottle filler.
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