The Thursday with bottling

 Hi,

My dizzy thing was in effect which was a bit of a pain for our plan.  It was bottling day for the brew we put down 2 weeks ago!  Finished work and Mike had to Uber home to pick me up and drive the car.  Andrew ended up getting swamped at work and couldn't make it to the bottling event.

Packing the bottles

Mike drove us to Occasional Brewer and it turns out you can park in the Connect parks.  Oohhh - yes!  We had another nice chap explain the bottling process to us - but Mike knows it all anyway.

They checked our bottles were of sufficient cleanliness and then we sterilised them in a big bottle washer.  And started siphoning from our brew buckets into a bucket with a tap on it.

Siphoning

Don't bottle that!

From there, we picked them up and put them on the top shelf (gravity assist) and used a hydrostatic valve to fill all our bottles.  About 60 odd 500ml bottles.  

Lined up nicely

Getting the last bits - but not the dregs!

Andrew finished work at about the same time as us so we collected him and discovered Sally was in town having a drink with Paul.  So we found them at the Backbencher and ordered tea.  Quite nice tofu scramble burrito.  Yum!

Took Sally home and Andrew took the train.  Headed back home - stored the bottles in the basement, snugged up to our hot water cylinder and fell into bed.

Both cats slept on the bed in an uneasy alliance that was brought on by a cold night.  Hahahah.

Good morning Wellington!

Up for porridge ahead of a walk into town, via an iced latte date with Sally as we were walking right by her workplace.

Iced latte start to Friday

Got karaoke after work today with Khemry and others from my old work.  Woot!  Starting the weekend in great style.

Weekend will be more carport fun.  Cleaning it down and possibly painting it.  We really need to order the iron.  With supply chain delays globally, the earlier the order, the better.  Probably.  Polly needs to check out the colour options and we can get quotes.  Yay!

Right.  6 more hours.  Yes!

Have a great weekend.  May starts tomorrow.  Wow.

Love,

Angela