Bottling day!! Chocolate oatmeal stout

Today is bottling day.  29 days after brewing the beer it's time to bottle it up.  This beer was brewed in collaboration with my good friend George.  George is new to homebrewing so we took this opportunity to learn some of the more basic steps in brewing.  Sometimes just seeing the process is a lot more helpful than reading about in a book. 

Bottling the beer takes patience so I always recommend doing it on a day off or when your nice and relaxed.  I've learned the hard way that bottling when you aggravated or have too many other things going on, can make it more challenging.  If your to busy, just wait till tomorrow.  The one or two days off, wont affect the outcome very much if at all.

 opening the fermentation bucket

   Final Gravity 1.015

  Adding priming sugar

 Stirring in the priming sugar, I love the foam on top. The head of the beer will look similar

Filling the bottles

   Capping the bottles

         THE FINISHED PRODUCT!!!

Time to clean!!


Tasting note: The chocolate is definitely present and there is a less subtle taste of oatmeal, but we shall see what the final taste is once it's been bottle conditioned for a few weeks.  I've learned from experience that stouts take more time to bottle condition then other beers.  This beer will probably taste best in about a month from now.