Bottling day makes you realize how cool kegs really are. However, some of us don’t have the extra cash to eliminate bottling day, and so for me and Scott, it takes a tiny bit more effort to get our tasty beverage into a final vessel.

Since my brother is attempting his own bottling very soon, we decided to notate our bottling day yesterday. We made a scottish ale recipe written by the brewmaster at Firefly Brewery in CT.

Tips:

  • Do not use twist cap bottles. They will not work.
  • Clean your beer bottles immediately after emptying them, and store them upside-down until you’re ready to bottle.
  • Be careful how many times you use the same bottle. We had one break this time around.
  • Things go smoother with two people! Try to get a beer buddy to help you out.

Here’s what we did (for the experts out there, please chime in if there’s a step we can improve!):

Clean and sanitize every bottle. This is tedious but the most important part.

1. Soak bottles to clean and remove labels

see video

2.  Boil & cool the priming sugar

3. Sanitize everything (even the bottlecaps)

4. Rack (move from fermentor to bucket) and add priming sugar

5. Sanitize and fill bottles with beer

6. Cap the bottles

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