bottling

I have been brewing beer for about 4 yrs. the first yr . I bottled  in traditional beer bottles. But as these things go i began with kegging the next year and love it!  My problem....I have a friend with cancer who due to chemo can't attend the event where the keg will be,( I also live 2000 mi. from him)  I would like to bottle a couple of bottles for him to enjoy when possible. is there a specific amt of priming sugar per bottle? I make things from  a Budweiser type to a stout to a wit beir . so the gravity's ect vary according to which one i am doing. any suggestions? please feel free to e mail me. thanks in advance

This actually sounds like a perfect use for a Blichmann Beer Gun. You could fill just a bottle or two for your friend. This is a link from Morebeer.com, but Northern Brewer and many fine brewing stores sell them. Just a reference, I have no affiliation with the product or retailers.

http://morebeer.com/products/blichmann-beer-gun.html


My thoughts are with your friend in his cancer fight. Beer is community. Fuck cancer.

http://www.bagbybeer.com/2/post/2014/01/why-we-wont-be-painting-over-this.html

I'm sorry to hear about your buddy.

I use a piece of tubing along with part of a bottle filler and just shove it up the tap nozzle.  Vent the keg and set pressure to about 2 psi.

Mark

I tried shipping a bottle to someone and it leaked in transit. Next time I'll use a Grolsch bottle instead of something with a cap.

First off, I have never shipped beer but did run across these couple of articles should someone choose to.  One thing you should not do. Do not us the U.S. Postal service (USPS).  I guess that would leave you FEDEX or UPS.  I see UPS is now using the USPS to end deliver some packages, so I don't know how that would work out.

Packing and Shipping Beer:
http://barlowbrewing.com/2010/11/11/how-to-pack-and-ship-beer/

New trader and Packing Tips:
http://alewatcher.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-trader-tips.html#Packaging

As far as your question on bottling goes, before I started doing batch priming, I used a calculator from Thescrewybrewer's site for single bottle priming.  There is a list of carbonation by style and you can set the various options (volume, temp, dispensing, etc...)

Bottle Priming Calculator:
http://www.thescrewybrewer.com/p/brewing-tools-formulas.html#bpc

As Maine Homebrewer said, there is always the risk, though slim if packed properly, of leakage...
Hope this helps.

ole happy here. the thing i get from yer question is how much sugar to add to a bottle of beer. try 1/4 teaspoon to start with n adjust from there for whatever style yer makin. most will fall in there perty close. good luck n hope the best fer yer friend

happy hillbilly said:

ole happy here. the thing i get from yer question is how much sugar to add to a bottle of beer. try 1/4 teaspoon to start with n adjust from there for whatever style yer makin. most will fall in there perty close. good luck n hope the best fer yer friend

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1/4 teaspoon per bottles is equivalent to 13.5 teaspoons for 5 gallons.  Converting to ounces, 13.5 teaspoons is 2.25 ounces.  2.25 ounces is vastly undercarbonated for most beer styles.

Also, I'm not much of a proponent of adding sugar to the bottle.  I can see where that could be an issue when only bottling a few beers or just a six pack.  Since she's already kegging, it's better to follow the advice for drawing carbonated beer from the keg with a blichman beer gun and capping it or using the grolsch style bottles as already suggested.

  thank you all for your reply's to my bottling question.  i am currently looking into each idea to see which will work best for me. thank you again!

In reference to adding sugar to bottles, Munton's makes these carbonation tabs which are aspirin like tablets of pressed sugar.

I used them to carbonate some six packs while I put the rest into kegs.

I was then reminded why you boil the sugar before bottling.

Every single one turned into an infected gusher.