Homebrew bottling night!

[TheTramp]

Here are a few pictures from my bottling session last weekend.


This is the bottling bucket being used to sterilize the bottles the bottles about to be filled.



This is the carboy full of fermented beer ready to be racked into the bottling bucket. The thing on the left is a auto siphon which lets you siphon without sucking on the bottom of the hose. Nice little tool.

[TheTramp]

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This is the bottle capper and all the caps that will soon be used on full bottles.

OH NO!!! the fuel is getting low!



One mini keg is full!!!!

Now I just have to wait a week while it carbonates.

[TheTramp]

[lord1234]

and u r inviting me over when?

[jdev]

and you plan to bring some to AONE to share with the rest of us that are 'of age' correct?

[TheTramp]

I might bring a few things to AONE 5 but not as far as the staff know.

[lord1234]

a) die joey d

b) die joey d!

c) yes yes homebrew GOOD.

[Jeffy-CanCon]

Ah, that brought back memories.

An old roommate and I used to brew our own beer, back in the mid-90's. I figured once that we'd usually drink about 4-dozen when we were working to brew 5-dozen. Lucky for us we had enough equipment to have two batches going at once, either in the bottles or the buckets.

Thanks for the pics.

[1stdeadeye]

Nice!

Looks like someone is going to be popular for a while!

What is that mini-keg? A 3 liter soda bottle?

[TheTramp]

Nice!

Looks like someone is going to be popular for a while!

What is that mini-keg? A 3 liter soda bottle?

It's similer. It's a 6 liter bottle. It's made out of the same type of plastic as soda bottles but the walls are significantly thicker. There is a special tap that screw onto the top which uses food grade CO2 8grams to force the beer out and replace the space so no air gets in. This way you can keep it in your fridge for a month without it going flat or getting skunked. Not that it would ever last that long

You can reuse the mini kegs around 6-8 times before they should be relaced. It's only like $10 for 6 of them so they work pretty well.

[1stdeadeye]

That is pretty wicked. Where do you buy them at?

[TheTramp]

I get all my stuff from these guys:

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/

They've got great prices even with the shipping and really fresh ingrediants.

EVERYTHING you could want, they have or can get.

[muirtach]

I've been looking at those philtap systems for a bit. You know anyone who uses them?

and you didn't say what the style was

[cphilip]

Dude! I love to home brew! My boss and I do this all the time. I have not started a batch in a while though. I think you just inspired me to get the equipment out.

Last batch my boss made he was attempting to get the alcohol content up in it. He used Champange yeast instead of the normal yeast for it and boy was thats stuff stout! Good too. Chocolatey and a tiny sweet. A dark brew of some kind. Turned out really good.