On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:30:58AM +0100, Kasper wrote: > Jeg er pt. i gang med mine første spæde forsøg ud i bryggeriet; et såkaldt > ølsæt (ekstrakt). Indtil nu er alt forløbet glat,
Congratulations, and wlecome to the interesting world of homebrew! > Af en eller grund bilder jeg mig ind at gæringsprocesssen burde være > (næsten) færdig inden skidtet hældes på flasker. Ikke desto mindre prutter > ballonen lystigt (ca. en gang/ 6 sek.) Kan det i så fald være skadeligt at > hælde på flasker ?(skal man vente til ballonen er pruttet færdig ?) You are absolutely right about that! If your fermentation is not ready when you bottle the stuff, it continues in the bottles. Unlike your fermenter, the bottles have a tight cap that does not let any of the bubbles out. So, the pressure increases, and increases. At some point something has to give, and your bottle will explode, sending glass splinters and beer everywhere, making a horrible mess. A week is about the minimum fermentation time you may get away with. Although the bubbling in the air lock indicates ongoing fermentation, the opposite is not necessarily true, small amount of gas can leak out elsewhere. The proper way is to measure the gravity of the beer, and if it stays constant for a couple of days, then the fermentation is done. Of course you want to have some bubbles in your beer, but bottling it early is not the way - you never know how much pressure you get. The proper way is to let the fermentation finish, and then add a carefully calculated amount of "priming" or "bottling" sugar. We have an example of those calculations on our web page http://www.haandbryg.dk/eftergaering.html > I øvrigt: Patentflasker kan købes (for pant-pris) hos Theobrands på Amager > i tre måneder endnu. Jeg havde et forfærdeligt hyr med at finde > parenrflasker på Sjælland for et par måneder siden, men det problem er > altså løst. I do not know what kind of bottles he sells, but I have heard that for beer you need patent bottles that are designed for higher pressures - many of them are designed for juices and other things that do generate much pressure, and may not be able to handle a well carbonated beer. I have invested something like 100 kr for a bottle-cap machine, so I can put my beer into regular Danish (or imported) beer bottles. I can warmly recommend such a setup (until you get tired of washing bottles, and want a draught beer system...) Best regards Heikki -- Heikki Levanto LSD - Levanto Software Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
