10 Tips for Easier Bottling

Originally published in the September/October 2001 issue of Zymurgy magazine Bottling homebrew has fallen out of favor these days for many experienced homebrewers who feel that it takes too much time and is too labor intensive. A lot of folks in the homebrew club that I belong to have switched from bottling to using kegs instead. They lug their carbon dioxide (CO2) cylinders and five-gallon Corny kegs to the meetings and parties. OK, so racking homebrew into kegs isn’t as labor intensive as bottling, but kegs are definitely not easy to transport and take up a lot of space. As for me, I’m still bottling all of my homebrew. I haven’t switched to kegs for a lot of reasons. For one, I like the portability of bottles. When taking homebrew to meetings or parties, I snag…

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