We can Brew and Bottle with the Best of them!

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We don't have any pics of use makeing the first mead or the braggot, but we have pics of the bottleing

proccess. Next time we will be sure to get everything.

This is the bottle station we had set up, the glass carboy was completley full of five gallons of

mead but we didn't get the camera till the second half of bottleing was gunna start.

The red device you see is the corker. You put a wet cork that we soaked for about 20min in water

to soften it up, in one end of the corker to start it. The inside of it narrows and pushes the cork in

the bottle as it compresses it so get a tight fit in the bottle.

The first batch of corked bottles of our sweet sweet mead! The silver wrapping on top gave it a really

nice touch. It is a light metal materical and you just boil water and put the tip of the bottle in and

it shrinks onto the bottle then you put the rest in. Made it look really nice.

THE FIRST OFFICIAL BOTTLE OF CORKED MEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! we would crack it open

within a few hours to celebrate with everyone and so they could taste it.

All the empty bottles for the second half of the mead bottleing to begin at our bottleing station.

One useful skill I learnd from all of this brewing was how to syphon liquids through tubes!!!! I

had to stand on a chair in this picture cause our tube was really long. If you have trouble getting

a good syphon on something or it is nasty to taste, just fill the whole tube with water and put

and end in your bucket <or gas tank hehe> and it will create a complete syphon suction

already. Easy as hell once you get it all down.

The first glass and the first cork fom a mead bottle. It was truely a wonderful

expirience and I have learned some awsome skills.

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Broken Mead Bottle That Exploded in Keiths Closet