Prior to brewing, the yeast should be removed from the refrigerator and allowed to reach room temperature prior to pitching the yeast. PROCEDURE PRINCIPLES 1.0 Preparation for Brewing 1.1 Perform the following to It is desirable to allow only the sterilize the fermentation and yeast to process the sugars wort cooling equipment. produced during the mashing process. Sterilization will remove the unwanted microorganisms 1.1.1 Pour about ¼ cup of bleach into the carboy and add about 2 gallons of tap water and swirl to ensure all inner surfaces are sterilized with the bleach. 1.1.2 Siphon about one quart of the See Appendix A for siphoning bleach solution through the instructions. wort chiller. Shut the wort chiller outlet pinch valve so that the coil is filled with bleach water. 1.13 Fill a resealable pint bottle The resealable pint bottle will be (such as EZ cap or Grolsch, used for kraeusening the fermented Figure 2) with the bleach beer. Kraeusening is a priming solution. Submerse the process where unfermented wort is disassembled vapor lock and used to prime the beer prior to carboy filling cap in the bottling. remaining bleach solution, Figure 1. Figure 1 Figure 2 Carboy Cap and Vapor Lock EZ Cap Bottle
Prior to brewing, the yeast should be removed from the refrigerator and allowed to reach room temperature prior to pitching the yeast. PROCEDURE PRINCIPLES 1.0 Preparation for Brewing 1.1 Perform the following to sterilize the fermentation and wort cooling equipment. It is desirable to allow only the yeast to process the sugars produced during the mashing process. Sterilization will remove the unwanted microorganisms 1.1.1 Pour about ¼ cup of bleach into the carboy and add about 2 gallons of tap water and swirl to ensure all inner surfaces are sterilized with the bleach. 1.1.2 Siphon about one quart of the bleach solution through the wort chiller. Shut the wort chiller outlet pinch valve so that the coil is filled with bleach water. See Appendix A for siphoning instructions. 1.13 Fill a resealable pint bottle (such as EZ cap or Grolsch, Figure 2) with the bleach solution. Submerse the disassembled vapor lock and carboy filling cap in the remaining bleach solution, Figure 1. The resealable pint bottle will be used for kraeusening the fermented beer. Kraeusening is a priming process where unfermented wort is used to prime the beer prior to bottling. Figure 1 Carboy Cap and Vapor Lock Figure 2 EZ Cap Bottle
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