Bottling New Steel Pale Ale

New Steel Pale Ale-Nice color!

Last night Kat (my little alewife) and I bottled the New Steel Pale Ale.  I had gotten a new bottling bucket from My Old Kentucky Homebrew.  It holds 7.9 gallons which is just perfect for my 6.5 gallon batches.  With Brett's Beard Bitter I got two full cases of brew (12 ounce bottles) plus some strays.  I added a little more water when boiling the bottling sugar this time.  We started the priming solution to boil while rinsing and sanitizing bottles.  I had recently found a bloke on Craigslist who had a bunch of old bottles, many of which are from dead breweries.  I got them for $6 per case, and have enough to spare if I find somebody who wants into homebrewing.  I have been cleaning them up.  I decided to try and save labels from at least one of each of the different kinds:

• Oertel's 92 from Oertel Brewing Co. (Louisville, KY)
• Wiedemann Bohemian Special Brew from Geo. Wiedemann Brewing Co. (Newport, KY)
• Falls City Beer from Falls City Brewing Co (Louisville, KY)
• Fehr's Draught Beer from Frank Fehr Brewing Co. (Louisville, KY)
• Sterling Premium Pilsner Beer from Sterling Brewers, Inc. (Evansville, KY)
• Heilman's Old Style Light Lager from G. Heilman Brg. Co. (Newport, KY/Evansville, IN)
• Old Milwaukee Beer from Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. (Milwaukee, WI)
• Schlitz Beer from Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. (Milwaukee, WI)
• Black Label Beer from Carling Brewing Co. (Bellville, IL/Frankenmuth, MI)
• Real Draft Beer by Oertel from Oertel Brewing Co. (Louisville, KY)
• Genuine Wiedemann Draft Beer from Geo. Wiedemann Brewing Co. (Newport, KY)
• Royal Amber Beer from Geo. Wiedemann Brewing Co. (Newport, KY)
• Falstaff Beer from Falstaff Brewing Co. (St. Louis, MO)
• Kentucky Malt Liquor from Frank Fehr Brewing Co. (Louisville, KY)

Raise your hand if you've ever seen the Oertel, or Fehr breweries!  I know Falls City beer has just began being produced again and you can get it in growlers at Liquor Barn locations.  I do not know if it's the same or similar to the original.  I've had it, and it's not bad.  As soon as I can scan my vintage labels, I will post them.  They are kinda cool.  This is beer and brewing history.

So the bottles were already scrubbed and ready to go, just needed sanitized.  Kat is a huge help and we knocked out bottling in fairly short order with only one mishap.  At one point Kat pulled too much on the siphon hose and it pulled out of the bottling bucket.  We probably only lost about 24 ounces between what was on the floor and in the hose which had to be discarded so I could re-sanitize everything.  Should be ready to drink in 8-10 days.