I am in a remote location and home brewing. The bottles saved for me are from Alaskan Brewing and my wing style capper won’t cap these bottles. I have no keg. What are my options?
I have left the beer in bottles, covered them with sanitized plastic wrap, placed towels on top of that with something flat and heavy on top of that. If this works I guess I will store the beer in a pitcher in my fridge.
Can I leave the beer mixed with the priming sugar in the bottling bucket with a tight lid on it and get any carbonation?
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
The bottling bucket may work as a makeshift serving vessel, but you may want to secure the lid with straps or rope to maintain the seal a bit better. Then order a different capper or get different bottles. Best of luck - Cheers!
I use an ancient bench type capper. It fits most all sizes of bottles. Mine is ancient and very robust. The more modern ones are a bit flimsy. However, try a bench capper mounted to a substantial wood base - 2 x 12. It should work going forward.
I am at a fly in, floating fishing lodge for the winter in Alaska. Winter caretaker. No mail or I would definitely get different equipment. Thanks for the help.
Wow. You will have to make something to cap those bottles. I have heard of a capper that used a hammer a long time ago. Can you disassemble the part of your capper that fits over the cap and then use a hammer and a piece of wood to cap the bottles? Or is that the part of the capper that doesn’t fit? You need something to crimp the caps while pressing the cap onto the top of the bottle. I’ll bet you can find something to work.
A simple and effective bottle to use until you are able to cap a proper bottle would be any plastic soda bottle with twist on caps. Soda bottles of all sizes including 2 liter will work. They are intended to hold beverages under pressure. Food safe and sturdy against carbonation pressure.
I suspect you will not get much if any carbonation without something more air tight than your present situation.
Jeffy,
You sir are a genius. I took the crimper part out and used a flat piece of wood and a rubber mallet. It worked great! Almost embarrased I didn’t come up with that myself but I’m too happy about it to care, lol. I fully expected a bottle to break but they all made it through. Here’s hoping they can take repeated beatings.
Thanks a bunch.
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions.
Woohoo! Thanks, man, but I knew you could do it!
This topic is my feel good story of the day ;D
Macgyver brewer! Nice innovation. Just be sure to tap hard enough to seal, yet not break the bottle…