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Date: 08 Oct 2006 15:54:31
From: PJ
Subject: 'After-bottling" changes
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Maybe someone here has an opinion or has tried this. I made a blonde ale
that I'm not really thrilled with. I was wondering what would happen if I
uncapped a couple of the bottles, transferred them to a growler and added
pumpkin spices (or something else?). Would too much carbonation be lost? Any
other potential problems with this idea?
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Date: 09 Oct 2006 14:44:31
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: 'After-bottling" changes
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On Sun, 08 2006 15:54:31 GMT, <hockypete@somwhereinhotmail.com > wrote:
> Maybe someone here has an opinion or has tried this. I made a blonde ale
> that I'm not really thrilled with. I was wondering what would happen if I
> uncapped a couple of the bottles, transferred them to a growler and added
> pumpkin spices (or something else?). Would too much carbonation be lost? Any
> other potential problems with this idea?
IMO, you'd probably lose some carbonation pouring the bottles into the
growler. It might work OK if you're planning on drinking the growler in
the next day or two. I wouldn't expect it to keep very long though without
going flat.
John.
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Date: 09 Oct 2006 12:47:41
From: King Nothing
Subject: Re: 'After-bottling" changes
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As long as the yeast is alive and you feed it, it shouldnt be a
problem. I reccomend putting in the hops with a bit of powdered sugar.
Keeps the yeast alive and makes for good carbonation.
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Date: 09 Oct 2006 19:54:52
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: 'After-bottling" changes
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On 9 2006 12:47:41 -0700, <jtutorchicago@gmail.com > wrote:
> As long as the yeast is alive and you feed it, it shouldnt be a
> problem. I reccomend putting in the hops with a bit of powdered sugar.
> Keeps the yeast alive and makes for good carbonation.
How much sugar though? I don't know of any easy way that you can measure
the amount of CO2 lost. Theoretically you'd want to add enough sugar to
put back the carbonation that was lost while pouring the bottles, but I don't
see anyway that you can measure that. Use too much sugar, and you end up
with bottle bombs.
One thing you could do is pour the bottles out into a 1 gallon fermenter
and put an airlock on it. Give it several days to degass so that you are
essentially removing all of the carbonation, and then re-prime the bottles
from scratch using the standard amount of sugar. IMO, that's probably
overkill though. I think you'll be fine just being really careful when
pouring, and then only planning on keeping the growler around for a day or
two.
John.
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