2 Weeks After Brew Day:

Congrats, you're one step closer to homemade beer! Once you're finished brewing, keep your beer in a dark place at room temperature, and try your best to forget about it (the occasional peek is fine!). After two weeks, check on your beer.

If you notice any signs of bubbling, just come back in a few days. Bubbling can mean the beer is still fermenting (especially in these colder months when fermentation can take longer!) It's better to wait an extra week or two than it is to bottle too early. Bottling too early can contribute to over carbonated beer.

1. Sanitize

Start your bottling day by thoroughly rinsing your beer bottles with water. Then, mix the remainder of you sanitizer packet (that you saved on brew day) with water and sanitize everything—your bottles, caps, tubing, racking cane + tip and your tubing clamp.

2. Prep Bottling Sugar

Before siphoning into bottles, you will need to combine your beer in a pot with something known as bottling sugar. Bottling sugar is what will ultimately ferment and turn into CO2, carbonating your beer. Most of our instructions call for honey or maple syrup.

3. Siphon

The trick to siphoning is putting whatever you are siphoning into (either the pot, or the bottles) much lower than what you are siphoning from (either the jug, or the pot). Try putting one on a table and the other on the floor to help with starting and keeping the siphon going. Gravity is your friend!

If it's your first time siphoning, we always recommend practicing with water a few times first to get the hang of things!

Attach open tubing clamp to tubing.

Fill the flexible vinyl tubing with sanitizer. You can do this by submerging the coiled tubing in a bowl of sanitizer.

Attach the black racking cane tip to the long end of your racking cane. Attach sanitized tubing to the short curved end of your sanitized racking cane. It will be a snug fit.

Pinch tubing clamp closed.

Remove screw-cap stopper from jug, and place racking cane into jug, just above the sediment at the bottom.

Lower end of tubing not connected to racking cane and open clamp. As sanitizer flows out, beer gets suctioned up. Clamp tubing shut when beer starts to come out. Fill pot with beer. Tilt jug when beer level is getting low, but be careful in not sucking up the sediment.

4. Cap Your Bottles

After filling your pot, siphon the beer from the pot into bottles, pinching the tubing clamp to the stop flow after each bottle.

Close bottles either using self-closing swing top bottles or a bottle capper and caps. Once you're all done bottling, store your beer in a dark place for 2 more weeks.

After a couple weeks, chill completely in the fridge, and enjoy your homemade beer!

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In this Live Bottling Class, we walk through the process step by step: from priming sugar to troubleshooting when gravity works against you, you'll be siphoning like a pro in no time.

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