This may be a silly question, but I am going to ask. My brother wants to get into beer making and I have two fermenter buckets. I was going to lend him one and we were going to have a brew day. I realized that if I use one bucket for my fermenter and he uses the other, I don’t have a bottling bucket for him to use when his is ready. He likes more wheat beers like Blue Moon or Shock Top, while I am more of an IPA guy, so mine will need to be in the fermenter a bit longer. He plans to use some bottles I have that I have not used, so he will be bottling his. My question is, can he pour the priming sugar directly into the fermenter of his beer, or will we need to buy another bucket for him to use as a bottling bucket? It isn’t a cost thing, but just more curious about it.
Also, the bottles are brand new and still in the box, so I was just going to have him run some StarSan thru them before bottling. Would cleaning them be needed as well?
Thank you, that is a great idea and might be a good way to go. I will talk to my brother and see what he thinks. We have a Morebeer close so picking them up would be easy, and I can do a bit of shopping too. LOL. Thank you so much for the input. RR
Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it. So a rinse and then sanitize is what is needed? I went straight to kegging, so I have no experience with bottling. LOL.
Sanitize rinse for new bottles.
1/2 teaspoon (slightly rounded) table sugar in 12 oz bottle before filling.
Let bottles carb/condition 3 weeks @ room temperature, then fridge a few days before drinking.
If you have patience, beer improves if stored at cool temps for a few weeks.
Make sure fermentation is “totally” finished.
Unlike using a keg, you have no control of pressure once bottled.