It’s been seven days since we brewed our beer so it was time to bottle. The bottling process wasn’t nearly as hard as prepping the bottles. To prep the bottles I soaked then for about 4 hours in hot water and then scrubbed the labels off. Next time I’ll buy new bottles as it wasn’t worth the time and effort.
After sanitizing all the bottles and the equipment Julie and I began siphoning the beer from the carboy into the bottling bucket. Next we added priming sugar to the beer so it will carbonate. Once the beer was in the bucket it was just a matter of filling and capping the bottles. We ended up with 45 bottles of beer. I created the labels using Adobe Illustrator after following this tutorial by Alan Ballard.
The bottles will now rest at room temperature for another week and then we’ll move them to the fridge so they can begin conditioning for 3-4 weeks.
*Side Note:
All my brewing photographs are here.
Want to barter some BHP beer for 21st Amendment beer in Cbus for USC weekend? Will it be ready?
**The big question is will our respective beers be worth one a piece or will the as yet unknown and untested in the marketplace BHP Beer be worth something more like the Zimbabwean Dollar?
PS, (assuming it works), aren’t you impressed I made an href work in your comments??
I’m highly impressed. Links are no joke.
Yeah, I’ll see what I can do in regards of transporting home made beer across State lines.
The deal is on, until the markets we’ll go for a 1:1.