Opened the first bottled No. 10

Oh, I needn't have worried about the bottles being carbonated or anything. They're very lively, and taste OK too - I was worried that the 48 hours spent in the barrel with so much air would have sent the beer off, but it's OK. It will be interesting for those who said 'I don't like homebrew because it's not carbonated' to try and see if they like it now. I carefully explained the 2 stage fermentation but I guess some just didn't get it. The best part of this was the wife said she liked it! Excellent.

Anyway, nine bottles still survive...

Bottling No. 10

Again, done in a hurry but the 5l left over from the party (The beer was well received, although I didn't like it much as it wasn't hoppy enough for me. That's different tastes I guess...) was sitting in an open barrel and would go off so I sterilised 10 bottles and filled them.

The only interesting bit was the priming which was done with 1 heaped teaspoon of glucose per bottle, plus 3 for luck, boiled in 1l of water for 15 mins and then distributed by eye amongst the bottles. Let's see how it works...