Rygar's internet has been nonexistent for more than a few days. I will take the liberty of showing the pics from our bottling and subsequent brewing session.

I made the trip down to Rygar’s home on Saturday afternoon. Our plans were to bottle the last batch and possibly brew another batch. I arrived a little later than anticipated. So we decided to bottle that night, and then brew the next day.

I’ll explain in a little bit more detail for those that don’t know how to homebrew (might interest you enough to give it a try). First we sanitized our bottling bucket, siphon starter, bottles, and bottling wand. We then boiled a little over 48 bottle caps to sanitize them. We then boiled 2 cups of water and ¾ cup of corn sugar. The corn sugar is used to “prime” the beer. Corn sugar ferments almost completely with no flavor. We mix this into the bottling bucket full of beer. This gives the remaining yeast something to eat. The CO2 given off carbonates the sealed bottle. This is called “bottle conditioning”. If you have ever had a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, you will know what I mean. They bottle condition their Pale Ale this way. It leaves a light sediment of yeast on the bottom of the bottle.

Well, enough explanation! On with the pics:

This is me siphoning the beer into the bottling bucket


This me filling the first case of bottles


This is Rygar filling the second case of bottles.


This is friend Steve capping some bottles with the bottle capper.