Bottling day

Clay looking like a proud daddy
carrying his first born.

The first batch of beer, a red ale, went into bottles today.  A second batch, a porter, was started two  weeks ago when I was in Gainesville, so we now have a production cycle going.  We will probably brew up the third batch next weekend, time and weather permitting. 

Vince, the beer hound.
We put everyone else outside for the bottling
process, but most of them were back in
before it was over.

Today we bottled the red ale and moved the porter into the glass carboy.  In two weeks we'll be ready to drink the ale and then bottle the porter. 

Here's some pics of the process, and some dog pics as well, because dogs are a part of every process around here.  A little dog hair won't hurt the beer.  Maybe we'll call it "Hair of the Dog." 

Gigi in her Anubis pose
Bremo on the bed behind her

Filling recycled beer bottles that we
washed and sanitized



Bremo (left) and Zachary (right)

The brewmaster

Capping the bottles

Lady on her nest of blankets

We got about 40 bottles today.



Vince the beer hound watched it all.

Bremo

Gigi with Cabell on the bed behind

Testing the seals on the bottles

Moving the porter from the
fermentation tub into the carboy.
The ever-present beer hound
is watching from the crate below.

Sampling the red ale.  It's not carbonated yet
but it's clear and smooth, tastes good.