Suburban Suds family bottling party

Our Experimental Porter was ready for bottling while my parents were in town, so we put them to work on the bottling line.  My dad helped package the bottled beers.  My mom took photos of the process.

Step 1: sanitize everything.

Step 2: give audience members snack.

Step 3: open the fermenting bucket and take a whiff (and photo) of your nearly finished product.

Step 4: have husband with very long arms get siphon going.  Learn a funny story from my dad about one time when my Grandma Schwisow was trying to siphon homebrew when she was younger.  Long story short: she ended up accidentally getting drunk on Sunday morning right before my Grandpa came to pick her up for church.

Step 5: bottle the first of 54 potentially delicious 12-oz beers.

Step 6: encourage the bottle capper to smile for a pic.

Step 7: put audience members to work.

Step 8: pour every last drop of liquid goodness into a bottle.  For the record, I am not sweating like a pig but rather just came inside from fixing the downspout in the backyard during a rain storm.

Step 9: clean up the giant mess in your kitchen.

The Suburban Suds Experimental Porter (name TBD) will be ready for tasting on March 17, 2013.  I have high hopes for my conveniently timed St. Patty's Day beer batch.