How to Bottle & Cap a Home Brewed English Mild Beer

"Hi, I'm Mark Emiley on behalf of Expert Village. In this segment, we're going to go over bottling and capping of our beer. Alright, so now we've got our beer up on the counter, our bottles all rinsed out and dried and ready to go, our bottle caps ready to go, our capper, and now we're going to use our filling tube and attach that to our bottling bucket. I'm using a filling tube. It's a little simpler than some of the conventional bottle fillers. If you have a bottle filler, it'll be a lot easier to do this. So now we're going to get ready to fill our first bottle. We're going to stick our bottle under the filler and open up the flow and it'll start flowing into the bottle as you can see here. As it gets toward the top, we're going to turn it off and slowly eek a little more in. Then we're going to pull it out and we're good to go. Now we're going to grab a bottle cap, put it on top of the bottle, and put it off to the side for now. We're going to cap it later. Then grab your next bottle, put it under, and start filling it up. If you have a bottle filler, you can leave the spicket open, the bottle filler will actually stop the flow for you. You want the fill line to be about an inch and a half to an inch below the top. If you don't feel that you're close enough, just pull it down, take a little hit, and you're good to go. If you're using a bottle filler, you may need to push it up slightly on the side and it'll add a little more. So after we've filled all our bottles and put a cap on top of them, we're ready to cap them. The reason we didn't cap them right away is because a little CO2 is pushing out of that and C02 is Carbon Dioxide and that's going to clear the head space out of some oxygen which we don't want in our beer. Now that we're ready to cap, we're going to put the bottles between our knees, take our capper, open it up, place it on top of the cap, get on top of it, push down until it kind of pops, and then your bottle has been capped. You are going to repeat this for all the bottles that you have. Once all your beer is bottled and capped, you may want to put a label on it or at the minimum you probably want to write something on top of the cap so you know what it is."