Monday, March 14, 2011

Finishing the Munich Dunkel

Feb 19th I racked the Munich Dunkel from the primary fermenter to the secondary fermenter. To clarify the beer I racked onto a solution of gelatin, 1 tsp gelatin dissolve in 1 cup of warm water. I then lagered the beer for about a month to bring on the lager flavors and so the gelatin could clarify.

Once the beer had lagered and clarified I racked the beer to the bottle bucket leaving all the sediment behind. To carbonate the beer I used white sugar that was mixed into the bottling bucked. The sugar solution was 2/3 cup of sugar dissolved in 2 cups of hot water.

With that done it was time to bottle. First thing was to sterilize all the bottles in Star-San and then rinse. I then siphoned the beer from the bottling bucket to the bottles using a bottling wand.

Here is the final product. I ended up with 24x330ml crown bottles, 16x500ml flip top bottles and one 750ml champagne bottle. They were bottled March 7th so they should be fully carbonated soon.