Hello Everyone
Coach Chris with WolfMoon Brewing
Today we're doing the fourth
video in the series of videos on the
Mr. Beer Northwest Pale Ale Complete 
Brewing Kit
This episode is going to be about
bottling and getting it ready to start
conditioning.
A couple of things real quick.
If you've been following along,
at the end of the brewing
episode, number three, I said that we
needed to let this
sit in the fermenter for three weeks.
That's what the directions that came in
the kit said.
However, going online I found that
their online directions, for the exact
same kit,
say that it's after 10 days you want to
start taking a test,
a taste sample, of what's in the
fermenter.
A couple days ago I took a little
shot glass and just
popped a little out of the valve and
tasted it and it still had a little bit
of sweetness left.
As per their instructions they said
to put it back and test it
a couple of days later.  Today is a
couple of days later.
I just, off camera a few minutes ago,
I tasted this
using a small shot glass again and it
tasted like flat beer.
Didn't have a sweetness to it.
As per their instructions,
and what makes sense,
this is ready to bottle.
The first thing we need to do
to bottle,
is we need to take our bottles and
anything that is going to come into
contact with the beer from this point
forward
and get it cleaned and sanitized.
What they say to do
in these directions, is to get one gallon
which i have here in this bucket,
of warm tap water.
It's nice and warm to the touch and we're
gonna mix in
the remaining amount of no rinse cleaner
that we have
from the cleaning and assembly video,
which was episode number two.
I've got my handy whisk again.
We're gonna put that in there
and we're gonna stir this up.
Now that it's stirred up,
we're gonna let
that sit for a few minutes.
We've let that sit for a minute.
It's nicely mixed up.
Now what we need to do, is we need to
evenly distribute this liquid
amongst our 11 bottles so that we can
clean all of our bottles.
Now me being the OCD person that I am,
I've got a funnel,
So I don't miss too much
and I've also got a measuring cup, so I
can get about 11 ounces in each bottle.
We'll do one here.
That's a little more, so I just won't
pour it all in.
OK.  So that's the first one.
Now you take one of your bottle caps,
screw it on,
and shake it up.
Now we need to let that sit for 10
minutes.
I'm going to break away and in the
interim I'm going to fill all my other
bottles, shake them up
and let them sit for 10 minutes and then
we'll be right back.
We're back.  It's been 10 minutes and now
it says
we need to shake them again one more
time
to get the cleaning solution on the entire
bottle one last time to make sure that
everything's clean and sanitized.
Now we're going to remove the caps.
While I'm doing this,
this kit came with
12 caps - 12 bottle caps, so there is an
extra one available.
Now I'm putting - dumping this liquid back
into the bucket.
That I started with. I'm gonna
put the bottle caps in there as well so
they stay clean and sanitized
while we're working on the process.
OK.  They've all been cleaned and
sanitized. They've all been emptied.
All the bottle caps are in our bucket
again, so they're staying clean and
sanitized while we're doing the next
process.
What we need to do, is we need to
take our carbonation drops.
Open that packet up
and take 2 of these carbonation drops.
Two of them and put them into each
bottle.
OK. Each bottle has been cleaned and
sanitized and we've removed the cleaner
and sanitizer from the bottle.
Do not rinse it after you've done that.
After we've done that, we've put two
carbonation drops in each bottle.
Now we're ready to fill these bottles.
The best way to fill the bottles is
at about a 45 degree angle.
Depress the spigot, and let it fill.
You're gonna want it to fill to about an
inch, inch and a half from the top
because you do want some headspace
in the bottle to allow for the
carbonation to take effect
and not have a bottle bomb.
OK. About a inch, inch and a half
from the top.
Now we take one of the
bottle caps.
Screw that back on nice and tight.
snug that up.
They say to gently take the bottle,
and turn it over
to see if there's any leaks.
I'm going to do it over a bucket, just to
be safe - and there's not.
We're good.
Now we're going to fill
each bottle like that
and we'll see how many bottles we get
out of this kit and we'll be right back.
OK. We've got nine bottles full.
I can see that there's a little bit
left in the bottom of the container, so, 
I'm gonna very carefully
tilt this and put a wedge underneath it
and try to get a tenth bottle out of this
I can see that the liquid is already
at the tip of the spigot
and running down below it.
So I might not be able to get this
bottle completely full.
Yeah it doesn't look like it.  So actually,
I'm going to
put it at a slightly steeper angle.
Try to get the last bit out of there.
Because, I don't want to throw it away.
I'm going to tip it a little by hand and
just see if I can help it along.
OK. That's bottle number 10.
Cap that one.
Now, just because it was the last bottle
and because of my OCD-ness,
because there's probably some sediment
not probably, but because there is some
sediment at the bottom and because I've
tilted it and stirred that up a little.
There might be some sediment
in this bottle.
Which is fine.
It's healthy.  It's not going to hurt you.
I'm just going to mark this bottle
with a piece of tape.
So I know that was the last bottle
I filled, and possibly has
some sediment in it.
If I open it and see sediment later,
I'm not confused as to why.
We've got a bottle here that still
has the carbonation drops in it.
I would, personally I'm just going to
throw those two carbonation drops out.
They've already had some
moisture on them.
I don't need those to start going bad or
anything or start dissolving in a package
and dissolve any others that I have.
All right, so we've got our bottles full
of liquid. We've got the carbonation
drops in them.
Now it's ready to put these away and let
them sit and let them
condition and to carbonate. The
carbonation drops are actually going to
react with the yeast and the yeast is
going to create a little bit of
carbon dioxide and that carbon dioxide
is actually going to be
what carbonates your beer.
We're going
to put these in a cool dark place,
somewhere between 70 75 degrees
and let them sit for two weeks.
After two weeks,
we're going to take a bottle
and we're going to squeeze it. You should
not be able to squeeze it like it.
If the carbonation drops have done
their job and the beer is carbonated.
It will be very hard to 
push on this bottle.
At that point, you're going to take one
of the bottles, put it in your fridge
and let it sit for 24 to 48 hours.
Make sure it gets nice and cold.
My suggestion, do the one with
the tape - get rid of that one first.
Then taste it.  If you like the taste
of the beer at that point,  if it's
carbonated to your
enjoyment level, then go ahead and take
the rest of the beers and put those in
the fridge and drink at your leisure.
At this point, we're done
with the bottling.
We're done with this beer at this point.
All's left is a little bit of time
and enjoyment.
We still have this container that
we want to clean.
It's why I saved this cleaning liquid.
What I highly suggest you do,
is take this fermenter
at this point and clean it out. Go ahead
and dump out whatever is left in here.
Rinse out whatever is in the bottom
of it and then dump this cleaning liquid
in there to get an initial cleaning.
Rinse that all out then clean it again
with dish soap, whatever you have.
If you want to do it
the way I'm going to do it, which is with
an actual cleaner that's made for
brewing systems.
You can get a product called
Five Star PBW
I'll put a link below to where 
you can get this.
This stuff is great.
It's an oxygen based cleaner.
It's environmentally friendly.
It will definitely clean anything that's
left on the inside of this
and you don't have to scrub as hard.
So, if you have the opportunity,
go ahead and get yourself
a small container of that.
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I'm Coach Chris
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