{"id":247,"date":"2010-03-23T02:43:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T02:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2023-07-14T18:42:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T18:42:36","slug":"making-beer-at-home-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/making-beer-at-home-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Making beer at home: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a follow-up to part 1<\/a> and part 2<\/a> of my home-brewing series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final step, as you may have guessed, is bottling the beer. There’s not a whole lot too this: you put your bottles in the dishwasher, then bake ’em a little to sanitize them, fill them with beer via a siphon, and cap the bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a good thing this is simple too, because I didn’t get any photos during the bottling. It turns out that digital cameras require something called a “battery” which needs to be “charged.” Who knew?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To take a step back here, you might wonder “where do I get beer bottles?” Well it’s obvious — you drink beer and reuse those bottles. You’ll need about 50 or so dark pop-top bottles. The labels can be removed by soaking the bottles in your kitchen sink overnight in hot water. You can use a cap full of bleach for suborn labels. But the good news is you can keep your de-labeled bottles and use them again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a pic of how the bottles get sanitized in the oven once they’re washed. You just place bottles on the racks of your oven, crank the heat to ~300 F, and wait for 20 minutes or so. This is actually more than enough to kill anything that survived the dishwasher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sanitizing<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The siphoning part isn’t very interesting, you just need a hose or ideally a hose connected to a pump. That part makes a huge mess but there’s not much to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone seems to be interested in capping the bottles. This crab-looking thing is the device that’s used for capping. You pull the handles and it pinches the caps on, and there’s a little magnet inside to hold the cap steady. It’s very easy, if you don’t mind a little hair in your beer you could probably train a monkey to do this part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Capper\"\/<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Important note to my Bay Area readers: don’t use Anchor Steam bottles!<\/strong> They seem ideal otherwise, but when attempting to cap Anchor bottles I’ve had nothing but issues. Usually the caps won’t snap on easily. One bottle actually broke while I was capping and I got glass all over. FAIL!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This concludes my brewing series. Perhaps I’ll have some other topics later if anyone’s interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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