Bottling Solutions For One Grolsch Bottles

[mike_capaldo]

Gday all,

I have had a honey chocolate porter in the old fermenter the last 4 weeks.

its been fermenting, settling and maturing and is now ready for the bottle. im gonna use grosch bottles (473ml) and am thinking of only adding as much sugar to the bottle as i would to a stubbie to create a less carbonated beer.

as i havent bottled much before I would like to know if this is simply not going to be enough sugar to carbonate the beer, even to a low level.

cheers

Mike :chug:

 

[FNQ Bunyip]

Hi Mike.

try a search for Bulk priming,

Sounds like a nice drop

:beer:

 

[bakkerman]

I mostly bottle in Grolsch bottles, and I use 1 carbonation drop. I've never had an undercarbonated beer with that, or one that's overly gassy.
(Mine are Dutch bottles and hold 450 mls, so you should be fine)

 

[barneyhanway]

I bottle into 750ml PET's but also have a collection of grolsch (473ml) that I use often.
I mainly brew english session beers, so I always carbonate LOW.
I use half the amount of suggested carbonating sugar per bottle, I think the standard measure for 750ml is 5gm? I use 2.5gm, and about 2gm for the grolsch bottles. They are pretty much always spot on - nice soft carbonation, fine bubbles, a creamier texture. Perfect for english styles.

I have noticed it can take a little longer to reach peak condition, a couple of weeks, but other than that there's no problem. Bottle away.

 

[Hogan]

M-L-B

One car drop per 473ml grolsch bottle would be fine. The beauty of these bottles is that you can release some of the pressure if you do overprime. But as FNQ says - bulk priming is the way to go.

Cheers, Hoges.

 

[mike_capaldo]

thanks for the feedback, but why bulk prime when i can bottle directly? i imagine bulk priming oxidises the beer more.

 

[brettprevans]

thanks for the feedback, but why bulk prime when i can bottle directly? i imagine bulk priming oxidises the beer more.

Check out the bulk priming threads. They will answer your questions. The idea with bulk priming is you can have absolute control over what you prime with and how much, and your meant to be careful when you are doing bulk priming so you dont oxidse the beer.

 

[PostModern]

When you bottle with live yeast, as you do, any small excess of O2 will be sucked up by the yeast during conditioning anyway. (As I discovered with my last case swap beer).