Here are the new editions to my brewing equipement family. The the left is a 45 bottle tree or drying rack, this will greatly easy the process of cleaning the bottles. Second is a 20 foot wort chiller. I look forward to easy of chilling the wort will bring, which means less hassle, less mess, and no need to buy bags of ice and scraping up my bath tub.  

I know I’ve been on a been on a tumblr hiatus, but the blogs will continue to roll.  Even though I have not been putting out tumblr posts, it doesn’t mean that I’ve stopped brewing. This is a pic of the bottles I used when I bottled my Texas Red on August 1st, which means it will be ready for enjoying here shortly.  

As I mentioned in my last post, I bottled my Bavarian Hefeweizen one week after transferring the beer to the secondary fermenter.  I was able to produce produce about 512 ounces or 42 (12 oz.) bottles worth.  I used a mixture of vessels to bottle the beer in:

2 growlers

6 pint flip tops

24 Standard 12 oz. bottles. 

I really enjoyed the bottling tool that was provided in my brewing kit. It really helped to keep my kitchen clean and the process went by a lot faster than I thought it would. After bottling the beers it will just be three weeks (May 6th) until the beer is ready and I really can’t wait. In the mean time, enjoy the pics. 

I worked hard drinking other people’s beer over the past year to get this collection of re-cappable bottles. 

Of my vast collection of bottle, these bottles were selected as the chosen few to be vessels of my first batch. The water jug doesn’t count, it’s just a water jug. 

Got to sanitize everything first. 

I boiled the priming sugar in some water and put it in the bottling bucket first before I transferred the beer fromt the secondary (the big class container).

The first bottle to get filled is this 2 liter growler that I got at North by North West brew pub in Austin. Sorry folks but my dad already called dibs on this one, but I do have a 64 oz. growler from Uncle Billy’s that I also filled. 

Filling the smaller bottles takes a little bit more care and a good eye, as these can get over filled in no time. 

At first I thought I was using the capper wrong because it seemed to easy. However after flipping the bottle over and seeing no leaks, I was reassured that the capper works. 

Here is some of the final product which I look forward to enjoying. Also I plan on possibly redoing the labels to avoid confusion as to who’s beer it is.