It's 8:48 and I just finished bottling, after starting at 5:30. 
Here's the gory details:
It's not a total loss because I ended up with four and a half gallons of beer... but man. Never had most of these things happen before, let alone in the same batch! And losing two and a half pints of beer! Frig.
On the plus side, when I opened the beer cupboard to deposit my newly-carbing bottles. I found seven six-packs of bottles washed and ready to use. Awesome.
Here's the gory details:- Forgot to sanitize my caps before I started
- Realized that the bottling wand had been left dirty after my last bottling eight months ago
- Found a spare racking cane, decided to swap the bottling head onto it
- Got chased outside by SWMBO, decided to bottle behind the shed where it's in the shade
- Realized that since I screwed up my volume into fermenter by an unknown amount, I'd have to rack to the bottling bucket (with volume measuring marks) before I could calculate bottling sugar
- Realized I didn't have corn sugar and SWMBO nixed using the last of her table sugar
- Found a bag of DME with mold all over the outside, washed it off and used that
- Started bottling, found that half my bottles were Hobgoblin (I think) and my wing capper can't grip them high enough
- Had a SNPA bottle snap off at the neck
- Tubing popped off the racking cane/wand, beer went everywhere
- Knocked several bottles over between filling and capping
- A neighbor gave me a really weird look, and I missed dinner
It's not a total loss because I ended up with four and a half gallons of beer... but man. Never had most of these things happen before, let alone in the same batch! And losing two and a half pints of beer! Frig.
On the plus side, when I opened the beer cupboard to deposit my newly-carbing bottles. I found seven six-packs of bottles washed and ready to use. Awesome.
