Beer Bottling Day

in #beer3 years ago

Beer Bottling Day

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This Saturday was beer bottling day. I posted on my Home Brew and some of the fermenting issues experienced with this brew some time ago.

It was actually 3 weeks ago that I brewed this beer and finally it was time to bottle!!

In total I got a decent 42 bottles of beer from this brew.

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Here is my method followed and my calculation of cost per bottle. (I did not add electricity cost, which is difficult to calculate. As you may recall I kept the beer warm in an electric blanket to help with fermentation.)

  • Heat 67 Celsius 90 min, 30 Liter water
  • Boil 1 Hour Add: 30g Saaz at 0 min
  • Add: 30g Strisselpalt at 50 min
  • Add: 30g Saaz at 50 min
  • Cool down to below 26 Celsius
  • Ferment weeks 3 weeks.
  • Bottle age 3 weeks.
  • Hydrometer reading 1: 1.054
  • Hydrometer reading 2: 1.024
  • Diff: 0.03
  • Alcohol 4,00%
  • Bottled bottles: 42
  • Ingredients Price: R292.50
  • Price per bottle: R 6.96

With $1.00 = R14.65 it worked out quite cheep!!

Now I must wait another 3 weeks for the beer to bottle age, before I can test the final product!!

I hope you liked the post as much as I liked writing it.

I hope you have a wonderful day!!