48 bottles of beer, take one out, pass it around...
Actually not yet.
Last night Husband and I spent 2 hours bottling our first batch of homebrew beer. It's not a difficult process. The hardest thing was trying to keep all the equipment sanitary, because any contaminant would ruin the whole 5 gallon batch.
It took a lot of water to wash 48 beer bottles and I kept thinking that we're in a drought situation, couldn't I save the water for something?
We were concerned the caustic cleaning agent we were using would harm the plants, otherwise I would use it for watering. As it was, it just went down the drain.
In the end, we got 45 and 3/4ths bottles filled, capped, and stored in the pantry. We would have had 46 bottles, but Husband did a little sampling along the way.
The beer has to sit for 2 weeks for it to be carbonated and drinkable, and 5 weeks for it to be optimum. Husband plans on sampling each week, just to see how it goes.
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First beer batch is always a grand experiment. There is a yahoo group for home brewers which would be helpful. The waiting is always the hardest part. Good luck!
I'm glad you sugared and then bottled. Frome your previous post I thought you were going to add sugar and leave it in the bucket for 2 weeks. That would have been bad.
Take a bit of advice from me. No matter how good or bad this batch turns out take 6 bottles and stash them. Try some in 6 months and then again in a year. If kept in a dark place you will find the beer even better over time.
Let me know when your ready to start trading recipes. :>
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