DamageCase
Well-Known Member
I bottled my Festival Pilgrims Hope last night/this morning, whether successfully is yet to be seen. It's up in the warm upstairs room at the moment so I'll have to keep an eye out for either successful secondary fermentation, non at all, or exploding bottles :pray:
The whole process has taken absolutely ages. Washing the bottles (empties I've collected form parties), and sanitising them in my tiny kitchen sink took a couple of hours in itself since I did all 40 odd at once. I batch primed, using a pressure keg as a bottling bucket without a push stem which made the actual bottling tricky and slightly messy, especially as I had to tip the keg for the last couple of bottles. Long story short, lesson learned, invest in proper bottling kit and work out a faster method of washing bottles. Have any of you got any tips on the latter?
The whole process has taken absolutely ages. Washing the bottles (empties I've collected form parties), and sanitising them in my tiny kitchen sink took a couple of hours in itself since I did all 40 odd at once. I batch primed, using a pressure keg as a bottling bucket without a push stem which made the actual bottling tricky and slightly messy, especially as I had to tip the keg for the last couple of bottles. Long story short, lesson learned, invest in proper bottling kit and work out a faster method of washing bottles. Have any of you got any tips on the latter?