We’ve been talking about over a month about how we needed to get together and take care of a number of non-brewing tasks. We bottled what was left in the kegs of our 2010 Christmas Ale (less than a case) and John Palmer’s Oktoberfest (a bit over a case), and finally got our Pub Ale and the Centennial Blonde Cream Ale out of fermenters and into kegs, and on gas.
Interesting bottling day, more on that to follow.
We also de-labeled and cleaned a batch of bottles, and generally cleaned things up a bit. Finally, I got started on “installing” the Little Giant pump and a counterflow chiller in one of our old bottling buckets, to help properly create a Countertop Brutus. Was going to convert the current CFC, but ultimately decided to make use of the leftover hose and copper tubing from the first one.