Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery

What do you get when you cross a journalist and a banker? A brewery, of course. “A great city should have great beer. New York finally has, thanks to Brooklyn. Steve Hindy and Tom Potter provided it. Beer School explains how they did it: their mistakes as well as their triumphs. Steve writes with a journalist’s skepticism-as though he has forgotten that he is reporting on himself. Tom is even less forgiving-he’s a banker, after all. The inside story reads at times like a cautionary tale,

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Mr. Beer Deluxe Bottling System

This convenient brewer’s essential includes eight 1-liter plastic PET bottles, caps, and labels. Everything you need to “bottle” a two gallon batch of beer.

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Maestro Homebrew Beer Kit w/ Auto Siphon

The Maestro Kit is perfect for the beginning brewer. Now upgraded with a Fermtec Auto Siphon, make transfers from the fermenter to the bottling bucket a simple task. Each Equipment Kit Includes: True Brew Handbook, 6.5 Gallon Primary Fermenting Bucket, 1 Lid Drilled & Grommet, 6.5 Gallon Bottling Bucket w/ Spigot, Fermometer Fermentation Thermometer, Fermtech Springless Bottle Filler, Fermtech 3/8in Auto Siphon, 5ft x 5/16in Flex Vinyl Tubing, Hydrometer, Emily Double Lever Capper, Bottle Brush,

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Making your own home brew beer labels is significantly easier than it was in the past. In fact, thanks in large part to modern technology, the process has become easier than ever before. The very first thing that you need to realize is that you will never really be able to match the professional quality of label that you might expect to find a store. After all, you are literally making this beer at home and so the beer label itself will have a little bit of an amateur quality to it — but not much.

So what has made the process of creating a beer label significantly easier for those who choose to create their own beer at home? The answer is staring right at you. It’s your personal computer and printer. You can literally utilize software that will make the process of designing a label both quick and easy. It doesn’t even matter if you don’t have a lot of artistic experience. The software that exists today can turn virtually anybody into an expert home brew beer label maker in a matter of minutes.

After you have decided upon to design of your particular label, all you need to do is insert some specialized label paper into your printer. Let’s briefly talk about the special label paper. You can purchase it at most office supply stores. What it lets you do is essentially print on a specialized sticker that can then be removed from the sheet of paper and placed on your home brewed beer containers. In other words, you don’t actually have to worry about purchasing expensive labels that are made by some third party company. You can literally create your own labels from home.

Something to take into consideration is the fact that your first few labels may not necessarily look the way you want them to look. The solution to this problem is to spend a little bit of time playing around with the software. You can do a couple of test runs and make adjustments as needed. Within a relatively short amount of time, you will be well on your way to creating some fantastic home brew beer labels.

A lot of people sometimes become very intimidated whenever they start thinking about the equipment that they may or may not need to create home brewed beer. One easy way to solve this problem is to invest in a high quality home brew beer kit. This kit will have everything that you realistically need to start making beer from home. In fact, this is why kits of this nature have become so popular. They take a lot of the guesswork out of the process of trying to figure out what kind of equipment you may or may not need. Just invest in a high-quality kit, and you will be well on your way.

In case you’re wondering, a home brew beer kit contains a variety of specific pieces of equipment that are critical to the beer making process. These include: a multi-gallon fermenting bucket with lid, a stopper and airlock, a multi-gallon bottling bucket, bottle filler, bottle capper, caps, a siphon hose, a siphon cane with anti-sediment tip, hydrometer, thermometer, and sanitizer. You might look at this and think to yourself that it may not necessarily be that hard to buy the individual components separately. Nothing could be further from the truth. You are better off purchasing a kit that includes these items instead of trying to purchase them all on your own.

When you have the right home based beer making equipment, it really gives you a lot of flexibility. You will be able to create some fantastic beer without really having to spend an inordinate amount of time hustling around doing things that are largely secondary to the process of making beer.

Here’s the bottom line: people who have an interest in making home brewed beer don’t really have to worry too much about trying to figure out what specific pieces of equipment they need to get involved with the process. Instead, they can purchase a high quality home brew beer kit and start making beer in a relatively short amount of time with the basic equipment that comes in a kit. It’ll make the process significantly easier and more fun for everybody who is involved.