Bottle fermentation

30kmph

What's the craic with bottle fermentation? What's so special about it and is it something homebrewers can do without too much difficulty?

oblivious

You can do it quite easily and if you cant a carbonated beer its a must, simply you want around 4-5 grams of table sugar per litres of beer

So lets say you have 20l litres heat 80-100gs of table sugar in some water till its just boils, this will kill of any bugs present. Let cool, add to you bottling bucket with you beer, very gently mix in and then bottle as normal

30kmph

What is the purpose of bottle fermentation?

BeerNut

30kmph wrote: »

What's the craic with bottle fermentation? What's so special about it

It means the beer is still alive when you're drinking it: as fresh as it can possibly be.

30kmph wrote: »

What is the purpose of bottle fermentation?

It makes the beer fizzy.

These questions mean you have traded in your

30kmph wrote: »

You obviously don't know anything about beer

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30kmph

Get off the stage chap

30kmph

oblivious wrote: »

You can do it quite easily and if you cant a carbonated beer its a must, simply you want around 4-5 grams of table sugar per litres of beer

So lets say you have 20l litres heat 80-100gs of table sugar in some water till its just boils, this will kill of any bugs present. Let cool, add to you bottling bucket with you beer, very gently mix in and then bottle as normal

Are there any examples of bottle fermented stout?

BeerNut

Dungarvan Brewing Company's Black Rock Stout and Little Valley's Stoodley Stout are both bottle conditioned and available here.

oblivious

Also Sierra Nevada Stout and porter are.

But 30kmph many commercial brewery's force carbonate there stout before bottling in a tank. it can be done on the home brew scale but need some specialised equipment