My irish red settled nicely at 1.016, time for bottling. Prep went smoothly, sanitized everything, transferred to the bottling bucket. I handled the priming mix a bit differently this time. The last (my first) i didn't get a good blend so this time I poured it in in stages, and gave a real gentle stir when I was done. Set the bucket over the clean and empty dishwasher and off I went. I set the bottles on the floor with caps and capped after I got 6 ready to go. About the 10th bottle I leaned over to snug it, and bam, shatter....yeesh. Happened fast. Over zealous probably. It seemed my black winged capper went south too, I had trouble getting caps centered and the darn thing kept capping on an angle. I have a 20 year old red all metal capper that I went to and it worked fine. The red capper is nice because you can see the bell and how it lays on the cap.
2 weeks 46 bottles in waiting.
2 weeks 46 bottles in waiting.