When I bottled my first beers using the equipment and directions from the Brooklyn Brew Kit, I didn’t find the siphoning all that easy. For the bottling of the chocolate maple porter, I got some new tools: an auto siphon and an auto stopper (I’m making up the name of the second item, as I actually don’t know what it’s called). What you see above is the auto siphon. With a couple pumps, the beer flowed smoothly out the tube out of the fermenter.
On the other end I added a stopper that effectively replaces the clip that comes with the Brooklyn Brew Kit. When you press the mechanism down, beer flows. When it’s not depressed, as you see in the photo above, the beer stops flowing but the tube stays full.
Push it down within the next bottle, and magic! It flows again. I highly recommend this.
As recommended in the Brooklyn Beer Making Book, I picked up a small spray pump at Daiso for spot sanitation.
I sprayed each bottle top with sanitizer (Star San) before capping.
Capping beer bottles is very invigorating!
With this batch, I was able to fill nine bottles (not all shown here).
If you’re interested, this shows the amount of trub.
And this is a photo of the trub looking down into the fermenter. Yum!
Comments
5 responses to “New Bottling Tools to Augment the Brooklyn Brew Shop Kit”
Hey Jamin,
I just happened to order the same additions for my homebrewing – the tip is called a spring top bottle filler.
Have you tried your first brew yet (guessing you are on the same timelime as me)? After a long wait, I opened my first batch (A Well Made Tripel) yesterday at the office to share with a bunch of co-workers. It actually came out pretty well – far better than I could have hoped for for a first time brew.
Good luck!
– Elliott
Elliott, thanks for giving the spring top bottle filler a name! ;)
I tried my first batch of Everyday IPA last weekend. It was good, but not exactly what I was hoping for in flavor. My review.
I also started the Well Made Tripel last week.
Nice – I would say that I personally enjoyed it enough that I would make the Well Made Tripel again. I will be brewing the Chestnut Brown Ale today, and after this I will start experimenting with non-Brooklyn Brew recipes.
Thanks for the excellent blogging on your progress with each batch!
Hey Jamin!
Curious how you enjoyed the maple porter? I’m just about to brew it and am wondering what you thought of it. I’m going to do the 5 gallon batch though since 10 bottle is just not enough for us canadians!
jim
I have brewed about 10 beers, and the chocolate maple porter (the second one I brewed) is still one of my favorites, if not the best!