On the left is a double chocolate stout, the right is the Wicked Angel IIPA from Brewkit Quarterly here on HBF and in the middle is an oatmeal stout (yum). Normally I keg but the IIPA I wanted to send around to some of HBF and the double chocolate stout is bigger than I want to have on tap, more of a long age grab a bottle now and then kind of beer.

I bottle over the open dishwasher door. This way the mess is contained and the bottles are right there on the door handy. After a clean load is unloaded I spray the bottom rack with sanitizer and put the freshly sanitized bottles on the rack to drip. I only sanitize twenty bottles or so at a time so that I can fill and cap them while they are still wet. With the bottling wand attached to the spout with a trimmed piece of racking tubing leaves plenty of room to slide a bottle under the wand.

With the dip tube this is how much is left. No need to tip the bucket or such nonsense.

Here is why I do a quick check and wet run with sanitizer before I rack the beer. Every other time I have bottled the wand fit tightly enough that I didn't need a clamp of any type. This time I kept falling out so I zip tied it.

Great write up!

Your counter tops were put in the year I was born ......


I have thought about doing a similar method .... but I am too lazy to put a valve on my bottling bucket ......

Nice write up ... and pics. Well done