On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:34:31PM +0100, Weldingh wrote: > > Jeg skal snart flaske min første øl og skal i den forbindelse tilsætte > sukker til eftergæringen. Mit spørgsmål er nu om man kan bruge en > almindelig trærøreping (evt. malerørepind) i træ til at røre > sukkeroplsøningen ud i brygget med. Jeg har nemlig set at der > anbefales at bruge en brygske der ikke er i træ.
I would not use a wooden stick of any sort. I guess it is possible to sanitize them to a suitable level of cleanliness, but I have no idea how to do it. Possibly if you bake the stick at 200 degrees for an hour, or something. Just dipping it into Iodophor won't be enough, some bugs may be hiding in the (naturally) rough surface, just out of reach... Depends a little on how you plan to do the bottling. Some people siphon the beer into a temporary bucket for bottling, leaving all the sediment behind. Here you can easily put the sugar in the bottom of that bucket, before you siphon the beer in, and it will get well mixed. If you siphon directly from the fermenter into the bottles, you can perhaps use the bottom end of the siphon to stir with. You need to be careful not to stir up too much yeast, of course. Alternatively you could siphon a few liters of beer out of your fermenter, into a (carefully sanitized) bottle, on top of the sugar solution. Then just pour it back to the beer, and shake gently. The problem of mixing sugar water into beer is, after all, a fairly trivial one, and there are many ways to solve it. -H P.S. Don't worry too much, it will be beer anyway. Too little stirring gets some bottles more bubbly than others, which is not good, but not (very) deadly either, as long as there is some mixing involved. Too much stirring may get some yeast up, but it will settle in the bottle anyway. -- Heikki Levanto heikki at indexdata dot dk "In Murphy We Turst"
