Bottling

Today was bottling day.  I tasted it again - major improvement over the fresh wort, but still not something I'd describe as "good."  I'd describe it as watery with a bitter aftertaste, whereas the wort was strong and extremely bitter.















Lessons learned:

• Measure Final Gravity before adding the priming sugar
• I measured it after siphoning it into the bottling bucket with the priming sugar.  This should give me a higher FG (and therefore lower ABV) reading.  I got 1.018, which translates to 4.07% ABV.
• Make sure to have enough bottles ready for bottling day.
• This is the messiest step so far - have a towel ready.
• Place the carboy in a plastic milk crate next time before I transfer the wort into it.  This will make lifting the full carboy much easier.

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