Posted in Bottling, Merlot on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
After yet more bottle cleaning, I was ready to bottle the Merlot that had been clearing. Having had issues when syphoning the Strawberry, I bought a new syphon from the homebrew shop. I also attached an extra length of tube to the tap, so that this could be fed to the bottom of the bottle, [...]
Posted in Bottling, Stout on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
The next task for the weekend was getting the Stout bottled. Having got the laborious job of cleaning all the bottles done, I added 60 grams of sugar to some freshly boiled water and stirred it until it was dissolved. I went for 60 in the hope it would come out a little less fizzed [...]
Posted in Bottling, Strawberry on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
At last I finally had a free weekend, so I had lots of brew related stuff to do. I started by bottling the Strawberry wine which has been clearing for about a month. I had already knocked up some labels:
As it had been my girlfriend who had wanted me to brew this wine, I decided [...]
Posted in Bottling, Linthwaite Light on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday I finally got round to bottling my second home brewed beer. It had been about 6 weeks since I first started it going, so hopefully it will come out ok.
I started off by knocking together a new set of labels:
I wanted to make the label a little different on each brew, so while the [...]
Posted in Bottling, IPA on February 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
At last, the time had come to get my beautiful beer into bottles. I’d spend a lot of time working out exactly how I was going to do this, so I felt well prepared.
I started off by filling the trial jar I bought on Saturday using a sanitised tube connected to the tap. Using the [...]
