Bottling Day!

This is our sanitation bucket with iodophor

 Finally the Day has arrived to bottle the brew!  We sanitized all of our equipment and went to town filling our bottles with creamy stouty deliciousness.  There's not a whole lot to say about the sanitation process, we use an iodophor solution 1 cap full for every 5 gallons of water.

We added our priming sugar to the bottling bucket and began siphoning.  Originally we were going to drain the beer from the fermentation bucket to the bottling bucket using the spigot but after a little test into a measuring cup we found that far to much of the sediment was making its way out of the spigot so we decided to just siphon from the top down.



After siphoning we found that our bottling wand didn't fit directly onto the spigot but the problem was easily solved with a small piece of vinyl hose and we began the bottling process.  If you have nice new carpet it's probably a good idea to put a bucket underneath the bottles while your are filling them because there is bound to be some spillage.

Just a couple friends enjoying bottling day and looking forward to the fruits of our labor.  We did try a small taste of the young beer and it tastes a little watery which we kind of expected due to the fact that we added about a gallon or so too much water to the fermenter.  I think that much of this problem will be solved once the young beer is carbonated as I know this will add a lot to the mouth feel, I'll let ya know how it turns out.