Peach Pale Ale Bottled

Wheat-Pale Ale with 7 pounds of GA peaches added to the secondary fermentor.

45 bottles + 2 to Chattanooga for the Fugetaboutit! competition in the Fruit Beer category.

Looking forward to this batch!

O Rye Ale Bottling Day

Today is the bottling and kegging day for our Rye Pale Ale.  Check out our snazzy new labels.

We have 10 gallons of this Rye Ale with half on Safale US-05 American Ale yeast and half on Safale S-04 English Ale yeast.  Somewhat surprisingly, both finished with the same Final Gravity of 1.014.  The Original Gravity was 1.058, which puts this at 5.8% ABV.  The grist was Pale US 2-Row, Munich, Vienna, Rye, Biscuit, and Honey Malt and the hops were Columbus, Fuggles, East Kent Goldings, Cascade, and Amarillo, which should play well with the malts.  This will be a great beer for tailgating at the Braves home opener on April 10!

Racking to keg below:

Bottling via bucket:

Sanitized bottles:

Hop shrapnel:

Crowned and cased:

49 longnecks and 2 bombers:

Packed for competition:

Cheers!

Oatmeal Stout Bottling Day

The Oatmeal Stout came out to 55 bottles worth. Bottling stouts is remarkably easier than dry-hopped IPAs due to the sludge called trub.

First, we racked sanitizer to the bottling bucket:

Then racked the sanitizer back into carboy:

Now the beer was transferred from the carboy to the bucket with some Dixie Crystal simple syrup. The Hydrometer reading was 1.018 from 1.058.

Add the bottling wand and fill some bottles:

Crown and crimp:

This will be a good batch. It smelled and tasted Choco- roasty. Cheers!

Bluff City Extravaganza Packaging

Today, we prepared our homebrews for shipping to Memphis, TN for the Bluff City Brewers and Connoisseurs competition.  The method that has worked best for us is to rubberband the labels, Foodsaver the bottles, wrap in bubblewrap, and stuff box with paper.  The key is to eliminate the possibility of glass to glass contact and prevent as much possibility for movement as possible.

Six bottles is typically the maximum we will pack into a box, so this is two boxes worth.

Bottle-o-rama

Briarcliff Brewing's Bourbon Barrel Barleywine was bottled in the basement by us both.  Alliteration aside, this one should be a winner.  The bourbon smell permeated the room, which should play nicely in the 11% ABV beer.

Additionally, we bottled the Northern English Brown Ale.

Bottled 10 gallons of IPA

We bottled two batches of IPA tonight.  It was the Biscuit IPA and the light caramel malt IPA.  It came out to 65 of the 12 ounce bottles and 16 of the 22 ounce bottles.  We are looking forward to trying these in a few weeks.

Bottle Prep Day

Today was bottle cleaning day and this is what 100 bottles looks like in the dishwasher!

Cleaning carboys & racking Star-San.

4 beers are now in the secondary fermentors:

• Imperial Stout
• Super dryhopped IPA
• Rye Pale Ale
• Oatmeal Stout

1 in primary: Pine Fruit Pale Ale

Bottling is next!

Bottling Jaryllo Pale Ale

Boiled 16oz water

Added cane sugar

Siphoned from carboy to bucket

Added sugar water to bottling bucket

Bottling wand

Capping line

5.1 gallons = 50 @ 12oz + 1 bomber

All Jaryllo hopped 5% pale ale