Ok its official

[El Nino]

Bottle conditioning is definitely fast here with the room temps being in the high 70s / low 80's. Usually full carb in 3-5 days depending on the ABV Living here basically there's no sense in kegging if your motivation is getting faster grain-to-glass, you basically save a day or 2 tops. If I'm that desperate to drink a beer that quickly I'll just go to the store

Of course though, kegging for sure if I ever got into high-volume batches. Keeping 100 empty bottles around = no thanks lol.

 

[Immocles]

Keeping empties around was a bit of an annoyance at first, but after some cleaning I managed to take advantage of the shelving underneath the basement steps. Just the main shelf can hold 4 empty cases in cartons, and a dozen stragglers, plus my bottling day box. I've managed back to back 5g bottling sessions a few times, but mostly because I'd rather do it all in one shot than bottle two weeks in a row. Most of the time its 1-2.5G sessions though.
I strangely don't dislike the bottling time. I guess I enjoy the peace and quiet in the basement. Stream some TV on my MacBook and catch up on WWE programming more often than not. It could be a bit cooler temperature down there, though.