The beer is done.

I struggle to find more words for this post than just what the title says. The beer we made is done, and bottled. I got two crates of empty bottles from a local grocery-store for the price of deposit. This turned out to be not very easy for the store to process. Apparently not many people walk in and ask for their empty bottles. All four employees that ended up being involved in my little request were very helpful and friendly and confused. (Employee 1: "But why doens`t he take them to the machine?", E2: "No, he is taking them with him.", E1: "Yes, but what does that have to do with us?". E3: "He buys them from us". E4: "We sell empty bottles?" E2: "No, just in return for deposit, find that on the register". E1: "But why...?")

Anyhow, I have my bottles now. We washed and delabled them in the bathtub, and subsequently sterilized them in the oven. After that, they were ready to hold fresh and delicious beer again.

Getting ready to siphon the beer out of the bucket into the container on the floor, leaving behind as much yeast sediment as possible. We ended up 'losing' 1.5L of liquid, but yeast-slurry just does not taste good.

 Once we bottled all the beer and capped all the bottles, Maren thought it would be nicest to make lables for them, so we got out our label-stamp and pen, and started working.

Here is the production. 36x 0.33L, and 9x0.5L pilsner. 

So that was that whole project! The bottles are currently stored in the pantry where they can mature a bit and build up some carbondioxide-pressure while the yeast sinks. In three weeks from now it should be ready to drink. I`m excited. (And I hope it is good...)