Labeled

Today I bottled my IPA. I had to bone up on the bottling process again since it had been a few years. As I was filling the last bottles I wondered how much beer remained. More than I expected. I'd had one extra bottle I'd kept but saw there was much more still. Not wanting it to go to waste, I filled a glass jar (that coffee beans normally go in) and then started grabbing pint glasses. So after two full cases of bottles, I still had this much left over:

Even I would struggle with so much. I called a neighbour and texted some friends, and luckily the latter were free and willing to come to my aid.

The beer was flat, of course. Priming sugar was added just prior to bottling, so after about a week it will be more carbonated. But I thought it was pretty tasty. I was a bit worried with this being my first batch in some time, and also as I'd had to do some impromptu conversions with the measurements of the ingredients to go from 5 gallons to 23 litres.

I affixed labels to bottles to be sent home with our friends. I'm happy to be designing them again. With this design I'm going for a "warm glow in the dark of winter" look. Mike's Nanobrewery, which has formerly operated in Olympia, WA and Portland, OR, now calls Coquitlam, BC home (though I considered using Port Moody and Vancouver alternatively).