Australian Pale Ale Part 2

Last week we started our own Australian Pale Ale brew, and this week it was bottling time ! Cleaning the bottles out took about 1 hour and was definately the most work. After we cleaned all the bottles and the bottle-caps, we opened the beer-tap. We knew straight away that our beer was good : It smelled fantastic, like fresh beer. It's hard to describe what "fresh beer" smells like, but you can compare it with having a bread from the supermarket, as opposed to just having created your first dough. The dough smells really good, you can smell the yeast and the freshness of your creation : The same applies to beer. We bottled the beer using Coopers "carbonization drops" which are like little sweets ( they are sugar-based ) and came out with 30 BIG ( 700ml ) bottles. So that's about 21 litres of fresh beer ! Not bad, the other two litres were "wasted" because we didn't want to bottle the bottom part of the tank where all the buildup and residue is : We want these first beers to succeed !

Now the big job is done, we can sit back and relax while we wait for our carbonization drops to perform the second part of the beer-magic : the bubbles.

We'll let you know in two weeks if our beer succeeded.

ps : Lex just cleaned the tank and tomorrow we're brewing Corona beer, yummmmmmy !