I am a Pro-Beer-Bottle-Capper

Last night, we got to bottle our first beer!  The Honey Vanilla Brown Ale got put into bottles and now we are patiently awaiting the weekend extravaganza that will allow us to finally taste our beer!

Aaron did the setting up, the sanitizing, the priming sugar adding, and the bottling.

I was in charge of capping... mostly because it comes with a fun little capper tool that looks like a crab.

I was "practicing" (with sound effects and everything!) right before we started and Aaron was laughing at me... and then I was a pro and I didn't break any bottles, so who's laughing now.  Practice makes perfect.  (Keep your fingers crossed that my skillz - yes, with a 'z' - transfer over to tonight as well, when we bottle the Raspberry Wheat)

There were a few spills along the way... but no worries, it was the sanitizer and not the beer.  Aaron would never be so careless as to spill the beer.  The sanitizer is food-grade though, so he was less than concerned about it getting just about everywhere.

Just like I was a pro-bottle-capper, he was a pro-foot-towel-spill-cleaner-upper (it's a thing... I promise).

Sam showed up at the end.  Apparently Aaron had invited him to help, but he showed up just as we were finishing the last bottle... so instead, he drank the last Sam Adams and watched Aaron try to test the specific gravity of the beer (unsuccessfully because we don't have the right container for it).

We ended up with 50 beers and from the taste test (of the warm, flat beer), it's going to be delicious!