Yesterday i set to the task of bottling up the wheat beer i’ve had fermenting for the past week. The beer was ready to bottle on Saturday but i was busy decorating a mates house all day. The original gravity of the beer was 1.038 and finishing gravity of 1.008 resulting in a nice 4% abv beer. As usual i set up all my sterilising kit in the bathroom and set to the task of cleaning and sterilising everything prior to bottling. I dont particularly enjoy this task but it is a necessary evil.
Once everything was squeeky clean and dry i set to the task of bottling the beer. This is now becoming a well rehersed procedure, made a damned site easier with the use of the bottling stick i bought a few weeks ago. I primed the beer with 3/4 teaspoon of light spray malt and quickly capped the bottles as the beer fobbed up on contact with the malt. In no time at all i had 40 pints of Wheat beer ready to go into the airing cupboard for secondary fermentation.
Once these were transfered into the airing cupboard i set about cleaning and sterilising the fermenting bin and all the equipment ready for the Coopers IPA a picked up from the local brew shop on Saturday.
Once everything was cleaned up (I need to buy shares in VWP judging by the ammount i go through) I mixed up the ingredients, I didnt have any beer enhancer left so i picked up 1kg of dextrose powder from the supermarket when i bought the 24 litres of water for the brew. Once everything was mixed in i took the Original gravity reading which came out at 1.039 and pitched the yeast and left for half an hour while the yeast re-hydrated and i had a sneeky beer 
Once the yeast was ready i mixed the wort throughly, Sealed the fermentor, attached the airlock and fitted the brew belt. All set now just sit back and wait for nature to take its course. I’m looking forward to trying the IPA, if it comes out anywhere near as good as the Yorkshire Bitter i did a few brews back i will be really happy.
