Hi, I'm Mark Emiley and on behalf of Expert Village. In this segment we are 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 are going to use our filling tube and attach that to our bottling bucket. I'm using a filling tube that is a little simpler than some of the conventional bottle fillers. If you have a bottle filler, it will be a lot easier to do this. So now we are going to get ready to fill our first bottle. We are going to stick the bottle under the filler and open up the flow. And it will start flowing into the bottle, as you can see here. As it gets towards the top, we are going to turn it off and then slowly "eek" a little more in. Then we are going to pull it out and we are good to go. Now, we are going to grab a bottle cap, put it on top of the bottle and put it off to the side for now. We are 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 spigot open and 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 are close enough, pull it down, take a little hit and you are good to go. If you are using a bottle filler, you may need to push it up slightly on the side and it will fill it a little more. So after we've filled all of our bottles and put a cap on top of them, we are ready to cap them. The reason that we didn't cap them right away is because a little CO2 is pushing out of that. And CO2 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 are ready to cap, we are 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 the top of the cap so that you know what it is.
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