Daily Archive for April 3rd, 2009

Bière de Garde – bottling

I have a busy weekend ahead of me. I am bottling my biere de garde tonight. I’ve cleaned and sanitized a couple cases of bottles that I’ve collected. There are some fun styles and a few really interested squatty Polish beer bottles that are about 6″ tall. I decided to go this route as I’ll be bottling a couple other beers inside the month, so I needed more bottles. I’m also going to enter this beer into the Wisconsin State Fair and they require glass bottles, not PET bottles. No doubt though, the plastic bottles are much quicker to get through the entire process because of their size reduces the frequency of bottles, plus they don’t need a capper (another recent purchase). This beer is much darker than I anticipated but I’m very excited to try it. It had the appearance of an Affligem Belgian Dubbel I just tried. If it could be as good, we’re in business.

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