Bottle washing and hops drying

We must have washed a thousand bottles on Tuesday night. Jeff, Ron, Keith and I stood around the sink spray washing and brush scrubbing all the bottles stored in my garage. It was 3 hours of production-line work--with union mandated breaks for beer sampling of course. I think we are set for bottles for the coming year.

Also transferred 3 of our beers--the Yamshine, Cream Stout, and Amber Ale to secondary. Left the Black Eye P.A. and pale ale in carboys for conditioning. And we bottled keith's Alleged PA--which is more like an IPA. Keith seems inexorably drawn to the hops.

AND, Keith brought over a burlap sack with his hops harvest. This foced us to spark up the hops dyer--which against all odds WORKS. Complete with a thermostat that turns the heating element on and off to prevent cooking the hops. An auspicious sign for our hops growing future.