Hi everybody!
This one has been baffeling me since I started brewing 1,5 years ago.
My bottling routin:
My beer is in a bucket with airlock and tap.
I syphon the beer from the yeast in to a measuring pot.
I measure the beer.
Wash and sanitize my bucket.
Syphone the beer back to the bucket, add corn sugar.
Bottle with the use of the tap in half liter bottles.
The mysterious problem: I always get less beer in bottles than I had in my measuring pot.
Say I got in my pot 16 liters, I will get like 28 bottles (14 liters).
If I have in my pot 14 liters, I will get like 24 bottles (12 liters).
It seems I always get 2 liter/4 bottles less than I should.
Now you can say, that my pot is not accurate, or my bottles are biger than I think, but please trust me that this is not the problem. I made a lot of measuring with different pots, different metodes. (I am member of the Mensa Society and had won a lot math competitions here, I know how to cross measure things)
Heck, if I fill up 30 bottles with tap water and pour in my present pot, it say 15 liters.
If I try to bottle the same 15 liters I just got like 26 bottles (not with the water, the water works, but with the beer)
So I see 2 options:
There is some kind of strange natural phenomenon here that I am unaware of.
I am beer cursed.
I don't really anticipate a solution here. I just was curious what the beer veterans think about this.
Sorry for the bad english,
Daniel
This one has been baffeling me since I started brewing 1,5 years ago.
My bottling routin:
My beer is in a bucket with airlock and tap.
I syphon the beer from the yeast in to a measuring pot.
I measure the beer.
Wash and sanitize my bucket.
Syphone the beer back to the bucket, add corn sugar.
Bottle with the use of the tap in half liter bottles.
The mysterious problem: I always get less beer in bottles than I had in my measuring pot.
Say I got in my pot 16 liters, I will get like 28 bottles (14 liters).
If I have in my pot 14 liters, I will get like 24 bottles (12 liters).
It seems I always get 2 liter/4 bottles less than I should.
Now you can say, that my pot is not accurate, or my bottles are biger than I think, but please trust me that this is not the problem. I made a lot of measuring with different pots, different metodes. (I am member of the Mensa Society and had won a lot math competitions here, I know how to cross measure things)
Heck, if I fill up 30 bottles with tap water and pour in my present pot, it say 15 liters.
If I try to bottle the same 15 liters I just got like 26 bottles (not with the water, the water works, but with the beer)
So I see 2 options:
There is some kind of strange natural phenomenon here that I am unaware of.
I am beer cursed.
I don't really anticipate a solution here. I just was curious what the beer veterans think about this.
Sorry for the bad english,
Daniel