I am brewing a extract beer and I am at the bottling stage.?
Directions tell me to take the beer from the carboy to a plastic bucket. However, I’ve got another beer brewing in my plastic bucket. Can i move the beer from one carboy to another empty carboy instead of a plastic bucket then bottle from the carboy?
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plastic bucket $3 at home depot. $1 picle basket from most restaurants. you may use the other car.
Any clean, sanitized container will do the trick, but it depends on how you want to do the bottling.
If you have a racking cane and a bottle filler, then the carboy will work. If you were planning on using a bucket with a spigot at the bottom to stop flow with each bottle, then you’re stuck with the bucket.
Absolute worst case, you can wait a week, rack the brew in the bucket into a carboy for secondary fermentation, *then* use the bucket.
I agree with waiting unless you having another bucket free, or buying a bottling bucket.
A dedicated bottling bucket (with spigot and bottling wand) will be be less than $20 and is money well spent.
Other tips:
* measure your priming sugar by weight for greater accuracy
* consider using table sugar to prime (5% less by weight)
* remember to boil your sugar in a small amount of water
* rack your beer onto the priming liquid in order to help mix well
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