Man, I HATE Bottling....

[Captain_Bigelow]

I bottled a batch of 50+ 12oz bottles a couple of days ago. I am seriously considering buying some 22oz bottles to half the work.

 

[Pappers_]

Wow, I guess I'm in the few who actually enjoy bottling their beer. Me and SWMBO knock out a 5 gallon batch in about 30 minutes, from cleaning to drinking. Helps to start with clean bottles that only have to be sanitized. I look what I needed from Revvy's bottling thread, and the rest is made up as I go. Kegs will come some day, till then, rinse, sanitize, fill, cap, enjoy! She fills, I cap, and I highly recommend the partner system.

+1,000,000 I *luv* bottling, its just so straightforward, means I'm at the end of the process, etc. I've got my operation pimped out, too, so its fast and smooth. :fro:

 

[KYB]

Yea I don't mind it at all. I have a bottle filler and it's awesome, makes it real easy. Doesn't take me long at all.

 

[Kauai_Kahuna]

Just bottled my first batch in many years. Now I remember 1/2 of why I quit brewing 8 years ago.
I've got 2 more batches to bottle, then (before the Apfelwein is ready) I'm calling Keg Connection for a setup.

Can I just say amen. I got a basic kegging system as soon as I could afford one. Occasionally I still bottle to free up a keg, or with meads and ciders but I have to space it out a couple of months just to forget how much it sucks.

 

[Arkador]

Can I just say amen. I got a basic kegging system as soon as I could afford one. Occasionally I still bottle to free up a keg, or with meads and ciders but I have to space it out a couple of months just to forget how much it sucks.

The other nice thing about the keezer, is when other guys are over at the house, they drool over it. You don't get that reaction from bottles.

The only bottles i fill is 4-6 if my batch is larger than the keg, and a growler or two filled from the keg if I want to take beer somewhere.

 

[brian_g]

I want to know why home brewers will spend half a day brewing an all grain batch (because it's not really brewing unless it's all grain), spend hours on DIY projects from building/designing kegerators, mash tuns, etc, and then complain about having to spend an hour bottling beer.

I don't love bottling beer either. I'm just perplex by the attitude that it's "cool" to spend more time to do an all grain batch, but bottling is just too much work. It seems that everyone starts with extract beers and bottling, and then "moves on" to all-grain and kegging. If saving time was the real goal, you'd put less hours into a batch by bottling extract beer instead of kegging all grain beer.

 

[SmugMug]

I want to know why home brewers will spend half a day brewing an all grain batch (because it's not really brewing unless it's all grain), spend hours on DIY projects from building/designing kegerators, mash tuns, etc, and then complain about having to spend an hour bottling beer.

I don't love bottling beer either. I'm just perplex by the attitude that it's "cool" to spend more time to do an all grain batch, but bottling is just too much work. It seems that everyone starts with extract beers and bottling, and then "moves on" to all-grain and kegging. If saving time was the real goal, you'd put less hours into a batch by bottling extract beer instead of kegging all grain beer.

Trollbait?

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Trollbait?

Nope!! I understood it perfectly well, and I agree. I still love my beer, even at bottling time.

 

[HSM]

And once again...the inevtibale happens...someone just HAS to mention kegging in a thread about bottling

As if the OP has never HEARD of it....or the fact that this thread is in the bottling/kegging forum.....

Someone ALWAYS feels the need to mention it.....

*sheesh*

Someone should jump into a keggin problem thread and for the hell of it up and say..."well you wouldn't have this leak in your regulator if you bottled!!!!

Your logic is weak. Can't you find a way for kegging to enter a thread if the title is "Man, I hate Bottling?". Seriously?

If "man I hate bottling" is the theme, then Kegging is the answer. Just because you aren't there yet doesn't make it wrong.