There are four basic steps to making home-brew. Step one: brew the wort and wash lots of dishes (see post: Bottle of Brew). Step two: reduce the sedimentation by racking or transferring the brew from the primary fermentor to the secondary fermentor and wash more dishes (there is nothing to see here folks). Step three: bottle the brew and wash dishes, which is the subject of this post. Step four: consume the beer, which is what I am doing now as I write the post.
A week before Christmas, Sam and I were ready to bottle our double-batch of Nut Brown ale that we brewed a couple weeks earlier. All that was lacking were some lights for the bottle tree to complete the festive scene.
The sight of 108 bottles of beer almost makes washing all those dishes worth while. Now comes the difficult part, waiting 2-4 weeks for the beer to carbonate...
Of course Nate, Teagan, and Zoe - who had fun watching their fathers make a mess and then clean it all up - will have a little longer than 4 weeks to wait...
Boy does all that good home made beer sound good. I am looking forward to your first tasting to hear first hand how it tastes. Some day I may get brave and try this.
ReplyDeleteI love the bottle tree. I have a friend who lives in Mississippi and she has a bottle tree out on her front lawn! Apparently, it's quite the decorative addition in the south. Fun pictures!
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