Capping the batch

Once I have the beer transferred into the priming tank and the sugar is stirred in well, it is time to fill and cap the bottles.  I was working solo here, so I found it best to fill about 12 bottles and then cap 12.  This went pretty quick.  I was a little rusty with the valve - it has been a while - so unfortunately their was some overflow.  I do hate wasting beer.  I have a very basic bottling set up.  You get a bunch of caps with the kit I bought.  Capping is pretty easy, set the cap on top and use the cap crimper to pop it on.  It takes some practice with this tool to get them on straight, but you can pick it up relatively quickly.  I would recommend bottling with a friend, it goes much quicker.  I had no takers at my house this night so the process took a little longer than planned.  I would say from sanitizing through packing up the beer I spent about 2 hours.  Net yield was 50 bottles.  Now they sit for 2 weeks conditioning in the bottle.  At the 2 week mark, I will chill one to see how it turned out.  For now, it's a waiting game.