Bottling Day

It looks like beer, and it even tastes like beer! Just like a warm, flat bud light. It even smells like an old bud light as well. The flat beer taste and clarity of the sample means it is time to bottle. If it tasted sweet or still looked cloudy, the beer would still need more time in the fermenter to let the yeast do some work.

I used the Mr. Beer directions again and watched a YouTube video to get an idea of how the bottling process should flow. The 1 liter PET bottles that came in the kit need 2.5 teaspoons of sugar each. I am using regular table sugar to do this. Putting less than the recommended amount of sugar will result in under carbonated beer, while putting too much sugar in a bottle can result in a bottle bomb. The steps to bottle your beer is fairly simple. I sanitized my bottles, caps, and measuring spoons. A funnel is used in the YouTube video, but I did not have one and had no problem bottling without it. I filled each bottle with the 2.5 teaspoons of sugar before filling any of them. The tap flows a little slow, especially when the fermenter is almost empty. It took about 45 minutes from start to finish. I took my time and made sure I did everything correctly, and now I have 8 of these bottles carbonating for the next 14 days!