bottling alone?

[Reinheitsgebot]

I have wifey trained. She'll be capping 2 batches' worth tomorrow. No, I have not told her yet...... . The fact that she is very very detail oriented, the capping always goes without a hitch.

Lucky me.

BTW, the Irish Red (Smithwick's Clone) @6.25% and the American Ale @4.0% are being bottled tomorrow. Together with half the batch of Belgian Wit, it will be a great feast when I come back from Germany at the end of June.

 

[gointomexico]

I was bottling solo from 1993 to 2007 with a wing capper. I think I had one bottle skid across the floor with my capper attached when I first started. I think I have lost about 5 bottles in my entire capping career. This was due to bottles being very old, or baked, or my capper not being adjusted correctly. I currently use 2 black wing cappers, but the red capper is defiantly the best. I had the red one, but lost it somewhere in 1990's, or it just finally gave up the ghost.
I keg now cus I'm wayyyy lazy. I bottle about a case a month, which is nothing really.

 

[Heineken]

I bottle my beer alone. I just fill a bottle ,rest a sanitized cap on top till I get 12 or 24.
Then cap em. I put a folded towel on the counter and set the bottle on it to prevent it from slipping. Seems to work fine.

+1 I have only bottled alone and this is similiar to my methed. Never had any problems other than the time I got half way through bottling and saw my bag of priming sugar sitting on the counter unopened. Had to open up the bottled beer and pour back in the brew, boil and add the priming sugar and re-bottle. Hope it will turn out.

 

[justinh85]

I know this is extremely time consuming, but when it comes to home brew...I will make all the time in the world, much to my live-in g/f's disgust. I fill, cap, fill, cap, one bottle at a time. I actually enjoy the process. That is how bad the hb bug has bit me.