Bottling Day: Centennial Pale Ale

Today we bottled our first all grain batch. The first step to bottling any beer is sanitation.

Most tediously boring part of the process

We are still looking for a better solution to drying all our bottles, but until that happens, this photo should tell you the current method employed. My roommate thought of this one.

I don't know how he did it. 

After our priming sugar was boiled, we siphoned off our beer from secondary to it. There was a lot of hop particulate in it.

More hops = better beer

It turned out to be more of a brown ale than a pale ale

Now because we had 3 people working on bottling today, we finished that step in 15 minutes. Of course, we also had a lot less volume to bottle. 34 bottles split 3 ways is only 11 each person (+1 extra to share with neighbors).

1 man filling, another on point, and me capping up top

Bought gold caps this time around

The full lineup (34 bottles for those who can't do math)

Bottle conditioning will finish up in 1 week from now. Then I'll be able to enjoy this new batch. My housemates are anxiously anticipating this one; we already sampled some uncarbonated brew and were very impressed with its flavor.

Great color, great foam