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Question about beer bottles
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Maz on June 13, 2018, 03:27:26 PM ---Coming from a home brewer, you cannot actually have caps that are not tight. You bottle after fermentation (your recipe might call for primary only or primary and secondary fermentation or something even more elaborate). You add a bit of sugar (primer) to the beer and then seal it air tight. The yeast eats the sugar and produces carbon dioxide, which is how you get carbonation in your beer. If the seals weren't air tight and strongly on, you'd have a blow out - the caps would be shot off and the beer ruined. Even if they didn't pop off, your beer would get contaminated. One of the most critical aspects of brewing is absolutely cleanliness - bottles, caps, all your brewing equipment will be cleaned and sanitized, usually using a combination of things such as an oxygen cleaner and/or food acid type disinfectant. Any strain bacteria could instead eat the sugar otherwise and that would lead to skunky, nasty beer.
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The suggestion was really just to set up the pun. ::)
Slowpool:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on June 13, 2018, 10:07:18 PM ---The suggestion was really just to set up the pun. ::)
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Conspiracy to commit pun? That's an extra 50 years. You really should talk to your lawyer before admitting something like that.
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Slowpool on June 13, 2018, 11:58:30 PM --- Conspiracy to commit pun? That's an extra 50 years. You really should talk to your lawyer before admitting something like that.
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I guess I better hope I can survive the... punishment.
Slowpool:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on June 14, 2018, 12:25:46 AM ---I guess I better hope I can survive the... punishment.
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Bailiff, break that man's kneecaps.
--- Quote from: Maz on June 13, 2018, 03:27:26 PM ---Coming from a home brewer, you cannot actually have caps that are not tight. You bottle after fermentation (your recipe might call for primary only or primary and secondary fermentation or something even more elaborate). You add a bit of sugar (primer) to the beer and then seal it air tight. The yeast eats the sugar and produces carbon dioxide, which is how you get carbonation in your beer. If the seals weren't air tight and strongly on, you'd have a blow out - the caps would be shot off and the beer ruined. Even if they didn't pop off, your beer would get contaminated. One of the most critical aspects of brewing is absolutely cleanliness - bottles, caps, all your brewing equipment will be cleaned and sanitized, usually using a combination of things such as an oxygen cleaner and/or food acid type disinfectant. Any strain bacteria could instead eat the sugar otherwise and that would lead to skunky, nasty beer.
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Considering Mac's stuff is neither skunky nor nasty, yet apparently is also not on tight enough to prevent casual opening, it seems there's more than a little sugar and spice in the brew. Probably something to protect it from contamination.
Dashkull:
--- Quote from: Maz on June 13, 2018, 03:27:26 PM ---Coming from a home brewer, you cannot actually have caps that are not tight. You bottle after fermentation (your recipe might call for primary only or primary and secondary fermentation or something even more elaborate). You add a bit of sugar (primer) to the beer and then seal it air tight. The yeast eats the sugar and produces carbon dioxide, which is how you get carbonation in your beer. If the seals weren't air tight and strongly on, you'd have a blow out - the caps would be shot off and the beer ruined. Even if they didn't pop off, your beer would get contaminated. One of the most critical aspects of brewing is absolutely cleanliness - bottles, caps, all your brewing equipment will be cleaned and sanitized, usually using a combination of things such as an oxygen cleaner and/or food acid type disinfectant. Any strain bacteria could instead eat the sugar otherwise and that would lead to skunky, nasty beer.
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I think Mac's operation is a LITTLE bigger than that. He likely does not brew in individual bottles, he makes way too much of the stuff. He probably brews elsewhere and pours it into bottles then seals it.
In any case, I dont remember anyone other than Mac and the lady bartender in Curses (who is also not human) doing it.
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