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15 Easy Steps To Bottling Your Beer

1) Put 50 clean bar bottles into the dishwasher with no dirty dishes
2) Add soap & run 2 minutes then stop & add 1/4 cup bleach
3) Run a complete normal cycle
4) Fill 2 small pans with 1 cup water & put on the stove
5) Put 50 caps in 1 pan & turn on low heat...Do Not Boil!
6) Put 5 oz. priming sugar in 2nd pan, bring to a boil then shut off
7) Sanitize bottling bucket, racking cane, siphon hose and hydrometer
8) Siphon sanitizer out of bucket and onto the lid of the bucket
9) Rinse everything at least 3 times & place on sanitized lid
10) Add dissolved priming sugar mixture to bucket
11) Siphon beer into bucket & put hydrometer into beer
12) Read specific gravity & place lid on top of bucket
13) Take bottles out of dishwasher to cool
14) Tilt bottles slightly & fill to 1" below top...Do Not Splash!
15) Place cap on bottle and cap....49 more and you're done!