{"id":85,"date":"2012-02-28T08:11:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T08:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slobrewer.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2012-02-28T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T08:11:25","slug":"brewing-tricks-swirl-your-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slobrewer.com\/wordpress\/homebrewing\/brewing-tricks-swirl-your-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewing Tricks: Swirl Your Bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s competition brewing season so I have gotten back into bottling beers instead of just kegging them. I also just made 10 gallons of single-decocted Bavarian Hefeweizen and put about half of it in flip top bottles to be a bit more traditional according to Stan Hieronymous\u2019 <\/a>Brewing With Wheat.<\/a> One issue that always annoyed me was draining StarSan from bottles. It took a while to get the liquid out of the bottles and then I had to wait for the bubbles to subside or deal with foam coming out of the bottle.<\/p>\n

Well recently I got the MoreBeer Counterflow Filler<\/a> and watched the video by John Plise. In it he briefly mentioned a tip that I\u2019d missed on previous viewings. When draining bottles rather than letting them glug and bubble straight out you can give them a quick swirl. A simple motion sets the sanitizer into a vortex in the bottle allowing air to come up the middle as the the liquid drains down the sides. The result is a much faster drain and significantly decreased bubbles in the bottle. All of this means that I can give up the bottle tree and just use a bucket with about three gallons of sanitizer during bottling. I invert the bottle, give it a swirl to set the vortex, and then wait a few seconds for the liquid to drain out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s competition brewing season so I have gotten back into bottling beers instead of just kegging them. I also just made 10 gallons of single-decocted Bavarian Hefeweizen and put about half of it in flip top bottles to be a bit more traditional according to Stan Hieronymous\u2019 Brewing With Wheat. One issue that always annoyed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homebrewing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slobrewer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slobrewer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slobrewer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slobrewer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slobrewer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slobrewer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slobrewer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slobrewer.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}