Bottling Time

Well that time has come, at least I think it has anyway. I have been checking the hydrometer reading for three days now and it hasn't changed. It is steady at 1.022, the directions say it should finish between 1.013 and 1.018 but it hasn't moved so I am going to go ahead and bottle it.

First step sanitize everything, bottles, bottling wand, 6 gallon carboy, everything...

Transfer the beer from the 5 gallon carboy to the 6 gallon carboy we are going to use for bottling.

Isnt that yummy, lovely waste from fermentation.



I got everything sanitized and then I just decide to drink it from the carboy, who needs to bottle it anyway.




Yeah like that would happen, here are some lovely action shots and the final bottles, the batch net 46 bottles of beer, a little less than the recipe said but I left an inch or so in each bottle so I didn't put waste into the bottles. Cant wait for a couple of weeks until I get to try it.







So the starting hydrometer reading was 1.082 and the final was 1.022 giving the beer a 6% APV, a little lower than the recipe says but hopefully it still rocks.