Clean and Fill

A bit longer than the 10 days before getting my latest brew out of the barrel and into the bottle but you have to do it when you have time and standing out in the garage for a couple of hours at night in the cold doesn't really strike me as being that much fun. A recent trip to the Warehouse had me walking away with a big plastic container with wheels on the bottom. Perfect for soaking and delabelling my bottles and then washing the bottles. Much better for my wife than taking up the whole kitchen. After the usual scrubbing and sanitising I connected the bottle filler to the barrel and started to fill away. Big bottles only this time. It is nice to have choice. Most exciting is the opportunity to use the flip top bottles Ben and Gina had generously given me for Christmas. It felt like it took me ages to work out how to put the flip top on, but once I had it sorted I was filling them like a pro. Fortunately I still have a few beers left from my last brew so I won't be going thirsty until this one is done.