A Beginners Guide To Brewing Cider: Weekly Progress Update 2

The Next Big Step: Bottling 

So we are the stage of bottling, I've been out to http://www.leylandhomebrew.com/index.htm & bought some blue bottle caps, £1 for 50 I think. I've already sourced a bottle capper (see picture above) locally when i bough a few cases of empty glass bottles. Available all over the Internet for around £15. 

Empty bottle can be bought cheaply if you source them from some one in the local area but be aware when you buy them on the Internet & included the P&P, the price can soon mount up. 

I got the bottle capper, 80 empty 1 pint bottles (which needed to be cleaned BTW) boxed for £40, but i was lucky as the person selling them was in the local area & were easily picked up on the way home from work. 

Additionally i grabbed a couple of essence bottles, to give my cider the aroma it deserves. At less then £1.50 they were a steal & came with free advice which is always vital to a beginner like myself. Apparently 1 bottle will provide enough from a 25 Litre / 40 pines of beer or cider & both will be more than enough for a very sweet / strong flavour. 

I'm going to try Apple & Raspberry cider & will be testing the quantities of each with a trial 1/2 pint before bottling. the volume I add for the half pint will be multiplied for the total volume required. 

But I'm getting ahead of myself, because this is tomorrows task. 
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