Last Monday, I bottled my Irish Red! It came to exactly 24 22oz bottles - or 4 gallons. I'd been prepared for the fluid loss, but 1/3 loss?? Must have been that 36 hours I didn't manage to check on it while it was in primary, and when I looked, the airlock had blown off the carboy, and flown almost 15 feet away. It took me nearly ten minutes just to find the thing.
Anyway, here are a few pics of the bottling process:
Freshly sterilized bottles
The carboy as it losses contents...
Ant's eye view into the bottle
Halfway there!
All done! Now the trick is only to wait another two weeks - or a week from the time of this post. Then it'll be time to drink.
After the preview I had from taking the hydrometer reading, I'm expecting it to be crisply hoppy, but chock-full of sediment. Not exactly the ideal beer in my estimation. But it'll be something to build on. Update next weekend after I've tried a few.
Halfway there!
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