We bottled our first batch of Red Ale. I had bought a bottling contraption that said it would stop filling when the beer got close to the top. Unfortunately, despite having an impressive assortment of hoses and suction devices, we could not get the beer to flow out of the Carboy or a big pot into the beer bottles.

We finally pulled out my first Mr. Beer kit from last year with a little tapper in front of the little keg. We siphoned 2 gallons at a time into the Mr. Beer keg and then filled the bottles from the tap as John capped each bottle.

We produced 9 six packs of Red Ale.

One thing that did work well was the little dishwater to sterilize the bottles before we filled and capped the bottles.