Hi everyone,
I just bottled my first 5G batch! Things seemed to be going well, but it seems there's a slight leak in some of the bottles - when tipped, a few drops of beer escaped from the tops. We re-capped them, but the leaks persisted - it seems that boiling the caps as suggested in the book I was following caused the seals to shrink, and so I don't really trust the status of my capping job...
Is it possible to re-cap the beers tomorrow after work? How should I go about doing this? I've seen posts that suggest that adding more priming sugar is a good idea... I'm also worried that the leak might be caused by the bottles being twist-offs, in which case most of my batch might be compromised...
Any advice would be appreciated, so I can relax and have a homebrew soon...
I just bottled my first 5G batch! Things seemed to be going well, but it seems there's a slight leak in some of the bottles - when tipped, a few drops of beer escaped from the tops. We re-capped them, but the leaks persisted - it seems that boiling the caps as suggested in the book I was following caused the seals to shrink, and so I don't really trust the status of my capping job...
Is it possible to re-cap the beers tomorrow after work? How should I go about doing this? I've seen posts that suggest that adding more priming sugar is a good idea... I'm also worried that the leak might be caused by the bottles being twist-offs, in which case most of my batch might be compromised...
Any advice would be appreciated, so I can relax and have a homebrew soon...