the beer is bottled!
its true! stop the presses! we finally bottled our first batch of homebrew! after doing almost everything either wrong or the hard way, our brew turned out quite well a little bottle conditioning and it should be very drinkable thank the beer gods! we're calling it "ass penny stout" after the story matt told us when we put pennies into the boil to prevent boil-overs, and the fact that we just kept pulling stuff out of our asses to make this brew actually happen its a pretty brew - dark as night the bottles of ass penny stout it took us all day saturday, but we got the bottles sterilized and sanitized, the bung out of the carboy, the dextrose into the beer and the beer from carboy into bottles and capped 'em. cleanliness is next to godliness in beer-making bridget puts a bottle in the pot to boil the bejesus out of it! checking to make sure the bejesus has in fact been boiled out! me, i was in charge of putting the sterilized bottles in ...