Well, I bottled up Dad's stout. It's very sweet, but it does taste like beer going into the bottle, so that's good. Horrible horrible yield. If I am going to continue to do small batches I'm going to have to start with a smaller fermenter.
I used the 5 gallon fermenter for this batch and it's so wide that even leaving just 1/4" of beer in the bottom probably cost me a bottle of beer. I had a lot of trub from all the oatmeal and grain, and I'm sure that sucked up some liquid as well.
15 bottles though and my first experience with a bottle capper. My boss loaned me her's and it seemed to work pretty well. That will give us 3 bottles to experiment with when Dad visits and if he likes it a 12 pack to take home to Oregon. He thinks that will last him a year. Personally, I think he could drink beer a little more often than that.
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