Port-oak Porter Bottled

 

Finally got around to bottling the port-oak matured porter tonight, should be just in time for New Year's Eve.

 

We siphoned it through a nylon bag to ensure all wood chips were taken out, was a bit worried about splinters in the final beer.

 

The new bottling stick valve thing is just brilliant. It cuts down the bottling time by a quarter and there is hardly any mess compared to before.

 

Ended up with 58 x 500ml bottles at 6.7% in total. Not made anything this low in alcohol before so it will be interesting to see how it turns out.  

These are the labels:

 

Also I noticed that the Pilsner yeast was growing; interesting to see it forming at the bottom of the bucket rather than the top. Tonight it was merrily bubbling away so I moved the bucket to the conservatory which is pretty cold this time of year.