We bottled Tom’s Barleywine on Saturday.  The other brewers chose 22 oz. ‘bombers’ for bottling, but I decided to use half liter containers (about 17 oz.) and go with plastic PET bottles. I have never used them before, but heard good things about them. They sure were easy to carry around – they are very light. One potential drawback is that I don’t think they are dishwasher safe. I think the plastic will deform or melt with the heat dry cycle. That’s really OK because it isn’t such a good way to clean them anyway.

We bottled about 15 gallons which was split four ways. Our pal Doug was there to help so we threw him a couple of bombers for his trouble. At the end of the ‘work’ session we did some research as is customary. We always strive to increase the breadth and depth of our knowledge and Saturday was no exception. Another pal, Craig, stopped by to help with the research phase of the day.