Hello, lurker with a first post - Just bottled my first brew

[sixstring]

I have to say, the Anvil fermenter seems really worth it. I didn't bother transferring to a bottling bucket, just opened the tap on the Anvil and poured into the bottles directly. Was this ok? I don't know. But it saved me needing to use a bottle wand and also saved me needing to wash another bucket up before and after bottling. Cleaning the Anvil was easy, nothing got "stuck" on the sides like the plastic buckets seemed to have a habit of doing.
Going to stick with just using Cane Sugar if I can, since that's really the cheapest option and saves me buying more things.

 

[mac_1103]

I didn't bother transferring to a bottling bucket, just opened the tap on the Anvil and poured into the bottles directly. Was this ok?

Sure. But you might find that attaching a short piece of tubing and a bottling wand to the spigot is a little bit easier since you wouldn't have to open and close the valve for each bottle.

 

[RM-MN]

an English Pale Ale

just opened the tap on the Anvil and poured into the bottles directly. Was this ok?

If your beer splashed as it filled the bottle, you have introduced more oxygen to the beer. That oxygen reacts with the aromatic hop oils that make a pale ale taste the way it does and will destroy it fairly quickly. Your beer will be best if drunk within a month or 2. Bottling wands let your fill the bottles from the bottom which limits the splashing.