Wild Berry Wine

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

@"Michigan Swamp Buck" or someone:

This is maybe a bit embarrassing but i am scared of everything that has pressure. Pressure cookers, pressured gas containers, everything like that. Dunno why, i have never had any bad experiences with them.

I maybe like to try making beer. And according to my understanding, when you bottle it, you have to add a little bit of sugar to the bottom of the bottle, then add the beer, then close the bottle firmly. The sugar, i think makes the fermentation process continue, then it is i think co2 there and that is where the nice sparkly bubbles come from. Can't have beer without them, right?

Is there a risk of the bottle turning into a fragmentation grenade?

The rule of thumb is use 2/3s cup of sugar to 5 gallons of beer by dissolving it in boiling water, allowing it to cool down, then mix it in the beer before bottling. And yes, they can explode, that's why I put them in a cooler outside my home for awhile. Otherwise, they have a way to carbonate it without reactivating the yeast to produce CO2.