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collapoo wrote:just a tip on the oxygen in the headspace, when I bottle I place the caps ontop of the bottles but do not seal them for around 10 mins. This allows the co2 to come out of solution and occupy the headspace, thus eliminating the oxygen. I have no problem with carbonation occurring using this method. i.e. i don't think the yeast need any more oxygen to get through the priming sugar.
That is exactly what I do. As I fill my bottles, I place a crown seal on them and put them aside. When they are all filled, only then do I get the capper, and seal them in the order I bottled them. Never had a bottle bomb for 30+ years, and all of my brews have carbed up well.
That makes 3 of us. That tip was on here a while ago and I have been using ever since.
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Makes 4 of us. I line my bottles up and fill them up one by one like a mini production line using the plastic bottle filler valve thing on a flexible plastic tube. Then as each one gets filled, my 5 year old daughter sticks a cap on it shortly afterwards ( she is a good helper and maybe will make a good brewer in the future as well). Doing this seems to make little mess with drips if you quickly move between the bottles.
Then when they are all filled. I start at the front of the line again and take each bottle up to the bottle capper on the bench to be capped. They woudl have probably been sitting there ten minutrs by the time each one goes from having the cap placed on top to when its capped.
Works a treat.
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