CraigTube (August 29, 2008 at 12:12 am)

Yes, I now just boil my water, add it to my bucket with the sugar, then add my extract and use hot tap water to get the rest out.

nitzwalsh86 (August 28, 2008 at 9:50 pm)

Do you find that you can use the extract without a boil? I do this and just add a gallon of boiling water to get my extract out of the can and my sugars into solution.

nitzwalsh86 (August 28, 2008 at 9:48 pm)

I find there's a more uniform result in carbonation if I just stir my sugar into a separate bottling bucket, but that's my deal. Also, I reuse pop bottles as well, mostly the 1 litres for personal use, but any bottle laying around gets cannibalized, and 2 litres go for entertaining. the 12oz bottles I also like for keeping some samples ideal for a beer tasting.

justindnb (August 23, 2008 at 3:53 am)

Craig, what is in your magical sanitizing solution?I'm happy to see that you find plastic screw caps adequate because earlier today, I bought 11 2Litre bottles of root beer (which I immediately dumped down the sink :P) so that I can bottle my very first batch tomorrow. I was worried that CO2 might leak but feel a bit better after watching your video.

dirtyd0002 (August 9, 2008 at 8:14 am)

thankyou

CraigTube (July 27, 2008 at 5:37 am)

You would have to put it in at the time of drinking, or it will ferment. Breweries stabilize the fermentation before they add flavour and carbonate manually, so there is no more fermentation possible. Home brew relies on fermentation in the bottle to carbonate. Any sugar in the lime will ferment and you will lose the full flavour of the lime.

sweetnessstuff (July 27, 2008 at 5:20 am)

what if i wanted to add a lime flavor to my beer.. would i just put some lime juice in the bottle?

kiteLe06 (July 19, 2008 at 7:10 am)

maybe hes on a well

ontenge (June 21, 2008 at 2:19 pm)

You can get those gadgets at any brewing supply store. It works for me, it really does cut time on rinsing.

projectink (June 12, 2008 at 4:47 am)

were can i get a bottle rinser thing like the one you have so i can clean the bottles out