newby bottling mistakes

So I bottled my first batch today and boy to I prove that I am a newbie lets see I left the tap open on the spicket for the bottling bucket when adding water to sanitize. I let the hose fall out of the bottling bucket when transferring the beer from secondary to bottling bucket used my auto siphon to atach the bottling wand to and gave that a pump and way over a bottle causing quite a mess. Didn't attach the spiket tight enough to the bucket so I had a very slight leek but I am a proud new brewing poppa of 24 22oz bottles of home brew

Congrats on your first "successful" bottling session. It'll all be worth it a month from now when you're enjoying them.
Check out Revvy's thread on bottling...very informative.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/revvys-tips-bottler-first-time-otherwise-94812/

annasdadhockey said:

Congrats on your first "successful" bottling session. It'll all be worth it a month from now when you're enjoying them.
Check out Revvy's thread on bottling...very informative.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/revvys-tips-bottler-first-time-otherwise-94812/

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Thanks for the plug!

i "hot loaded" a bottle once.. as in double fill.

After a few batches you'll have it down to where you won't spill a drop. Congrats on your first batch!

Congrats to you on your first bacth! A couple of weeks ago we bottled our third batch of beer. We also started our second batch of wine the same day. Yesterday we picked up 60 Grolsch bottles for a buck each.

This is a great hobby and you can learn so much. This year for Christmas, we are giving out bottles of wine and beer instead of our regular gifts!