First brew bottled !

[baggyray]

Have just bottled my first brew,Nelsons Revenge,and to my amazement it tasted just like ......beer unlike the rubbish I used to produce many years ago with the cheap kits I used to buy
I'm just waiting for it to condition now (and hoping that nothing goes bang during the night ) :whistle:
Dropped a few small clangers during the whole process,but hopefully will iron out the bugs in my next brew....BIG Mistake,not buying a clip to secure syphon tube to the fv whilst bottling :nono: crocodile clips and clothes pegs just don't do it

 

[eggman]

Congrats on the first brew mate :party:
Done that about 4 times it's my favourite Woodfordes kit, good choice :thumb:
Get yourself another brew on so you get a rolling stock built up

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[Dave1970]

I did the same on my first bottling, clothes peg didn't cut it, fortunately the sediment in the Woodefords Admirals Reserve kit settled back down pretty well.

I'd strongly recommend one of the 'Little Bottler' attachments if you're going to bottle future brews...cheap & effective bit of kit

 

[luckyeddie]

Congratulations - and welcome to the rest of your life. Nothing that happened before counts - the clock is now running.

AG in a year, I reckon.

 

[calumscott]

Addictive this brewing thing isn't it? I was intending to take it easy but I'm just about to bottle my fourth brew in a month and a half!

Seriously recomend ditching the whole tube and clip thing in favour of a tap and "little bottler". I found that tip on here somewhere and went with that from the start. I've also got one of those big bottle drying tree things which is brilliant for my tiny kitchen. Having those two makes the process dead easy - I get all the bottles and caps and whatnot sterilised and on the drier, SWMBO gets set up with the priming sugar and funnel and she just supplies me with empties and takes back the full ones and 5 gallons is in the bottles in no time! Same with the capping - she loads the capper and places a bottle, I cap it and stack it...

...I can't imagine just how much carnage there would be if I didn't have the little bottler - kitchen would be a beer swimming pool and I'd be divorced I reckon!