A Peek at Life as a Natic

Dan came over this morning to finally botlle the beer that I brewed for him (Caramel Vanilla Creme Ale).  I had been meaning to do it for several weeks (okay nearly months now) but just had not gone ahead and done so.  I guess I was just dreading bottling beer again when kegging is sooo easy LOL.

I grabbed all of the bottles and got them ready to be sanitized.  We spent about 2 hours or so getting everything sanitized, adding the vanilla extract (a whopping 5 ounces of it!), and adding the bottling sugar.  The beer came out damn near perfect.  I am glad that it was a successful batch for him as after all he did pay for the ingredients LOL.  He will need to wait about 2 weeks before he can drink it, but it should be great when he does. 

For my own notes, this beer finished at a perfect 1.012 final gravity and we added 5 ounces of vanilla extract