Bulk Priming and Bottling Your Beers

So you have made your beer and it's fully fermented out. Time to bottle it up.

This can be a messy, timely process and if you don't do it correctly then you can end up with with some bottles dangerously fizzy and some flat.  The method I use for priming is a bulk prime and will give consistently even results and is a lot quicker and more efficient.

You will need a decent beer syphon tube. I use one with a tap at one end and a length of solid tube with a sediment cup at the bottom to avoid sucking up too much trub. You will also need another fermenter bucket, empty bottles and bottle caps.

I would recommend using as little chemicals as possible. Despite being better for you, it will also cost you less and you are less likely to contaminate your beer with steriliser solution.

The Basic Simple Step By Step Of How I Brew Extract Beer

This is the full step by step method that I use for making my extract beers and ales. It is incredibly simple and a time and time again proven method. This will result in a bodied beer of around 4.5% by volume.

The method I use a involves only boiling a small volume of the wort and dried extract with the hops, and then adding the remaining extract after the boil.  I make batches of 23 litres (5 UK gallons), and my boil volume is 8 litres, which is roughly a third of the full volume.  This has 2 main advantages: