What is Bottle Conditioning?
by Jim Vondracek on 12/29/10
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October 17, 2010
Bottled up the Munich Munich Ale and the latest batch of cider. Decided to leave this batch of cider a little sweeter than the previous batch. It will be good to have a couple of different varieties of cider, depending on what sounds good for that evening.
Both of these are carbonating or conditioning in the bottle. That means that we do not filter out the yeast, like most commercial beers. We add a sugar solution before bottling - the yeast will eat up the sugar and produce CO2, carbonating the beer. The yeast will also help the beer mature in the bottle. A few commercial beers are bottle conditioned, with yeast in the bottle rather than filtered out; Sierra Nevadawww.sierranevada.com/, Duvel www.duvelusa.com/home.php, and Bellshttp://bellsbeer.com/ are three that I know.
Here is a link to a blog posting about bottle conditioned beerhttp://blog.beeriety.com/2009/08/03/what-is-bottle-conditioned-beer/
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