We bottled the beer today, had a nice production line going. I bought a proper, bottler today, definitely worth the cash, saved us heaps of time. I guess if you take away the novelty factor, the home brew should get us our money back in about 3 batches, the whole setup initially cost us around $140, and $17 or so gets us around 2 and a half slabs (60 beers). A standard slab we buy costs around $40 so we should make that cash back pretty quick. Not that it’s the reason for doing it, it’s pretty fun. Here’s a few pics of the bottling stage

The Production Line

Just Under a Teaspoon of sugar in each stubbie

Pour It

Cap It, That Capper was a life saver.

Store It. This is where the beer lives for the next 6 weeks.

It’s a beautiful thing.

So now we just wait 6 weeks and it will be ready to drink, take a sip, look at your hand, make sure you can see 5 fingers and wiggle your toes, if all is well, keep drinking, after 10 beers, take the test again, if things have changed, my friend you have alcohol, oh yeah!

Things are happening now. We’ve got the the beer fermenting away in the laundry, and in 5 to 7 days we can bottle. I’ll be getting a proper bottler next week, saves a hell of a lot of time.

Now we just cross our fingers and pray to the beer gods for good beer, with a shitload of alcoholic content.

So me and my housemate went off to the brew shop in Geelong today and picked up a starter brew kit. We got the bucket, the beer, sugars, steralizing stuff, thermostat, all the good stuff. We’re hoping to have this gear ready for new years / summer for good drinkin, might be pushing it a tad though. I’ll blog the process over time to the moment of tasting. For our first brew we’ve decided to go with Mexican Cerveza, which is supposed to be like Corona, most home brews I’ve tried don’t taste anything like they are supposed to, but we’ll give it a bash.

This should be interesting.