Bottled 4 22liter batches in one session.

[Brett74]

Hard work! Now the waiting begins...

 

[DoctorMick]

That's some commitment!!!

 

[IainM]

Bet you're glad its over and done with. How long did it take?

 

[chuff76]

Bloody hell that's impressive, 160ish bottles ? It's a pain in the bum just doing one batch with a helper!

 

[mattrickl06]

I love homebrewing but I hate bottling, I don't know how you could do 4 batches at the same time.

Corny kegs are the future...

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I hate bottling so :hat: to you.

 

[chub1]

Blimey i get the hump doing small batches and with help!

 

[Grizzly299]

That must have been quite a bottling session!
Nice to have all that beer ready soon though.

 

[BeerCat]

Amen, as soon as i get my Kegerator running the better.

 

[Brett74]

It took about 4 hours altogether. My 2 daughters and wife helped out quite a bit for the first two and the girls needed to eat etc. so I just carried n by myself.
When I was doing it by myself, I realised after a bit of practice that I could cap a bottle while the bottling wand was sitting in the next bottle and filling it, but you had to be quite concentrated and coordinated, so no home brews! Saved that for clean up, scrubbing 4 fermeters in 1 go wasn't so much fun....
4 batches is actually about 215 bottled at out house as we use a lot of 330ml bottles.
I actually didn't find it that tiresome, maybe its a novelty that will wear off.
One thing it did make me think about was what would that fancy capper that cost nearly. 3 times the price be like to use?
As far as kegs and barrels go, I don't think we get through enough beer to make them feasable, I am thinking of building up enough stock to just have say 300 or so bottles of well conditioned beers in stock the whole time, maybe 10 diferrent beers so we have a nice variety. I am finding the more I am getting into beer, my tastes are changing...I tasted a mikkeler hoppy pale ale that SAS has on their flights 6 months ago and thought it was awfull, had it a week ago and damn was it good, but then I also knew what I was tasting, make sense?

 

[baggybill]

Well done that man (and women!) :hat:

Should be some kind of award for anybody that bottles two batches at the same time... never mind four :shock:

Can't believe that includes a bunch of 330's too, I'm losing the will to live after about x30 500's

Nice stock now though, hard work over, enjoy :drink:

 

[chuff76]

I am finding the more I am getting into beer, my tastes are changing...I tasted a mikkeler hoppy pale ale that SAS has on their flights 6 months ago and thought it was awfull, had it a week ago and damn was it good, but then I also knew what I was tasting, make sense?

I drunk nothing but commercial lager until about five years ago when I went mad one day in Tesco and bought 2 of everything on the premium world beers section.

Amongst them was Goose Island IPA, unlike anything I'd ever tasted before and it really struck a chord - My tastes changed almost overnight, suddenly most of these lagers just tasted insipid and bland, and since then I've been on some kind of quest to find, make and drink this style of beer.

I also think this comes with age, having just turned 40 - I'm yet to find anyone much younger than myself who can discern between this stuff and a pint of fosters at the barley mow!

 

[GermLish]

I drunk nothing but commercial lager until about five years ago when I went mad one day in Tesco and bought 2 of everything on the premium world beers section.

I did the same with British beers when I moved here. Posted the pictures and taste results on Facebook.

 

[Clint]

Nice going family Brett! For the clean up you must get some sodium percarbonate. ...no scrubbing required! Just a few spoons in the fv with hot water and a good shake up gets most off.

Cheers

Clint

 

[Brett74]

Thanks Clint, will give that a shot.

 

[GilBrew]

I enjoy bottling too, I think i'm a bit weird

 

[JapanBrew]

I enjoy bottling too, I think i'm a bit weird

Me too. You get to see your hard work and what's going to be filling your gut soon.

As for capping, I don't do it asap. I do lay the cap on top but not crimp it. I heard from someone and now I swear by it too that it works. What happens is the yeast start munching and making co2. This starts to push that little bit of air out. After, I clean and put away my items. Last I cap them down. In a quiet room, you can hear the caps clattering away.

 

[Personal91]

Me too. You get to see your hard work and what's going to be filling your gut soon.

As for capping, I don't do it asap. I do lay the cap on top but not crimp it. I heard from someone and now I swear by it too that it works. What happens is the yeast start munching and making co2. This starts to push that little bit of air out. After, I clean and put away my items. Last I cap them down. In a quiet room, you can hear the caps clattering away.

Now this is a golden tip if ever I have read 1, I'm still a capping virgin but will use this technique

 

[GilBrew]

Me too. You get to see your hard work and what's going to be filling your gut soon.

As for capping, I don't do it asap. I do lay the cap on top but not crimp it. I heard from someone and now I swear by it too that it works. What happens is the yeast start munching and making co2. This starts to push that little bit of air out. After, I clean and put away my items. Last I cap them down. In a quiet room, you can hear the caps clattering away.

That sounds a great tip. i usually lay cap on top then crimp batch before clean up. im gonna try this way with next beer

 

[MyQul]

Me too. You get to see your hard work and what's going to be filling your gut soon.

As for capping, I don't do it asap. I do lay the cap on top but not crimp it. I heard from someone and now I swear by it too that it works. What happens is the yeast start munching and making co2. This starts to push that little bit of air out. After, I clean and put away my items. Last I cap them down. In a quiet room, you can hear the caps clattering away.

This is what I do too. Tbh, I thought thats what everyone did as it's so easy. Fill all the bottles in one big batch then cap them all in one big batch