Beer bottling, take two

Ugh....

These things are always a bit of a chore, aren't they? First I had to wash and get the labels off a couple of dozen bottles and dry them. Then sanitize the bottles and dry them AGAIN... that's going on right now. I've boiled the priming sugar and made the hop tea. The hop tea is for flavor. The priming sugar with react with the last bit of yeast in the beer and carbonate it in the bottle. I've sanitized the bottling bucket, and the siphon, and the bottle caps. When everything is dry and the priming sugar mixture and tea are cooled to room temp, I'll transfer the beer from the carboy to the bucket, mix in the sugar and tea, and start bottling.

Yay? This time I'll make sure to lay down some towels to minimize the mess. I'll put the bucket up higher so it is easier to get under it and transfer the beer gravity-style. And in only 6-8 weeks, I'll have drinkable beer. Tomorrow I'm brewing up another batch, and then yet another batch next weekend. My first batch is SO CLOSE to being ready to drink, and since I'm on a diet I'm not going to be drinking more than a few at a time, so I'll be done buying store-bought beer forever!  Yay!!