don't you just hate...

[bod]

not having enough buckets? :huh:

i'm bottling the beer i brewed for my brother in law, for their wedding this weekend. firstly theres a few problems:

1) I've left it to late!!!
2)i have two king kegs, one is normally a fermenter, the other a secondary, both with air locks, but both have 3 gallons of beer in them that i need to bottle for the wedding. i also have a batch of turbo cider in my bottling bucket, thus no bottling bucket to bottle the beer with.
3) I've left it to late!!!
4) My mash tun is actually an old fermenting bucket, not a cool box thing, so i could have used that if it wasnt scratched to hell inside.
5) yep, i've left it too late.

so, what should i do? i was thinking of transfering one of the king kegs to the other, as they actually hold 6 gallons (just), and then clean and sanitise the other and then use that to bottle from.

what do you think?

[Andy]

You've left it too late!

[bod]

my only excuse is that i've been working...

[fizzypop boy]

I think what you should do is not to leave it too late!!

[bod]

well, i did it. was a pain in the ass, but it worked. transfered one keg to the other, cleaned and sanitised it, transfered all the beer to that keg and added the priming sugar and bottled.

since i've left it to late..... i have put labels on the back of the bottles to say it requires two weeks bottle conditioning time, and should be left to stand in a cool place(not the fridge).

now i just need to put the labels on the front of the bottles and the ones round the neck and all will be fine and dandy...... i'm actually loosing the will to live. this will be the last time i offer to make beer for some ones wedding unless i can rock up with a few cornies full, instead of bottling it all for them to take home.