Shawn Hargreaves
Well-Known Member
Crazy that I never tried using a bottle filler before today...
I've spent a ton of time tuning my mashing technique, but for some reason never really thought about how I bottled, so I always just went with a siphon out of a bucket and straight into the bottle, the same way I did on my very first brew. It wasn't my favorite part of the process, but I got used to it and never thought any more about it.
Well, last week I splashed out and spent $5 on a plastic bottle filler. And today I used it to bottle my Oatmeal Stout. Wow! So much less stressful. Slow, steady, easy to stop the flow and take as much time as we needed between bottles, zero spillage, zero aeration, and 100% consistent fill level in every bottle.
Where has this been all my life?
Makes me wonder what other awesomely useful yet trivial time savers I am still missing out on...
I've spent a ton of time tuning my mashing technique, but for some reason never really thought about how I bottled, so I always just went with a siphon out of a bucket and straight into the bottle, the same way I did on my very first brew. It wasn't my favorite part of the process, but I got used to it and never thought any more about it.
Well, last week I splashed out and spent $5 on a plastic bottle filler. And today I used it to bottle my Oatmeal Stout. Wow! So much less stressful. Slow, steady, easy to stop the flow and take as much time as we needed between bottles, zero spillage, zero aeration, and 100% consistent fill level in every bottle.
Where has this been all my life?
Makes me wonder what other awesomely useful yet trivial time savers I am still missing out on...