Today was supposed to be a day of hard outside work, the coconuts still need more cleaning and weeding but…the plans of mice and men aften go astray…so the rain and cold weather decreed.  The next best thing, I guess, is to bottle some of that New Year’s Eve Brown Ale I made.

It is a fair bit of work, to be honest, especially this first time that we had to wash, clean and sterilize the bottles we got from town.  They were filled with old napkins, cigarette butts and I hate to think what else…

After a few hours, they have to drip dry before they can be used…

In the mean time, the maize beer needs to be siphoned into a bottling bin…

…and the priming sugar needs to be boiled…

It is only after all this is done that we can start filling the bottles and placing the caps on them.

Now we can finally use the capper to seal everything up.  As a side note:  A big thank you to Speedo for bequeathing his bottle capper to us…I would have hated to do this job by hand…

And here is the finished project!!

I’ll let you know what it tastes like in a few weeks…in the mean time…may all your beer be cold and bubbly!!

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