Day 32 – Bottling beer at the brewery
November 1, 2009 by gwyncole
What a cool day this was!! My brother Cliff found a brewery that makes beer to order. No preservatives, no chemicals. For this reason the beer has to be refrigerated and has to be ordered by the keg! Once brewed, you can either can the beer, bottle the beer or take the keg home and put it directly on to a tap system which is refrigerated. The owner reckons that all his “keg” customers are very happy!
Cliff ordered cans and bottles for 2 kegs. One keg was for the bottles and the other for the cans. We did the bottling but the cans were done before we got to the brewery.
The photos below tell the story of what we did…

Vania and Cliff sterilising the bottles.

You sterilise the bottles by spinning them with the liquid squirting inside the bottle on a special machine....

Cliff enjoying the process...

Once sterilised, you put the bottles in a tree holder platform which can be moved.

Cliff moved the bottles ready for filling up.

We were given the opportunity to taste the beer 🙂

Cliff had his beer canned.

Vania is pouring the beer into the bottles.

You can see the beer actually going into the bottle 🙂

Cliff punching the bottle tops onto the bottles.

I love the way Cliff and Vania are looking at the bottle in the middle!

Me having a go at punching the bottle tops on. Photo by Cliff Cole.

Too tempting to drink! Photo by Cliff Cole.

Just about to punch the bottle top on.

Bottle top punched on.

Vania nearing the end of the bottling.

Cliff filling up the beer fridge!

A full beer fridge! We needed two fridges... both full!
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Very nice, this is a great idea ! tell us how the babalas was!
The beer is very fresh and crisp! It definitely tastes better!! Pure quality! I wish there was something like this back in the UK.
That looks great, and I don’t even like beer! How many more relatives have you got, Gwyn? Is all of Australia related to you somehow?
Well… the amount of family I have here, its starting to feel like I’m related to everybody in Australia! 😉 giggle…
Mmmmm beer.
And the beer is really nice Paul! On a hot day with 2 fridges full of it, its rather tempting! 😉
Where do I sign.