Last month, I went with Ryan and Howard to a local brew on premise facility called BrewsBrothers where they brewed an IPA (pictures of the brewing are in an earlier blog). For the past four weeks, we've been waiting for the yeast to ferment, so that we could return to bottle the beer. Ryan bought a couple of small kegs in the States and we were going to get to use kegs this time instead of bottles. Unfortunately, one of the kegs cracked in transport and we ended up having to bottle half of our portion of the beer. It was interesting seeing the entire process of beer making from brewing to bottling. Here are a few of the pictures of the "bottling" process.
Where the brewing happened 4 weeks ago
The bottling station
The refrigerator where the kegs are kept during fermentation
more kegs
The capping tool
Sterilizing the kegs
Checking the keg for leaks... found a crack! Ugh!
Our keg of IPA
Ryan pouring the first of it
Ryan pouring and Howard capping the bottles... they had quite an assembly line going!
Howard using the capping tool
Cheers to our first pint of IPA
Our frig after we got home with our beer
