Ordinary bitter

[Steve Ruch]

Ready for crimping

 

[Steve Ruch]

Ready for crimping

This.

 

[Donoroto]

You don't crimp immediately after filling each one? Interesting.

 

[Steve Ruch]

You don't crimp immediately after filling each one? Interesting.

No, I put a cap on each one as I fill it then crimp them when all are filled.

 

[Sunfire96]

No, I put a cap on each one as I fill it then crimp them when all are filled.

I do it the same way. Crimping after each one is too slow, gotta do it assembly line style

 

[The Brew Mentor]

When I used to bottle, I did 12 at a time.
Kind of broke it up and cleared off the counter

 

[Donoroto]

Huh. Learned something new. I've always done them one at a time.

Then again, I keg. Bottles are only for competitions and mailing to friends.

 

[Ward Chillington]

I'm a 4 banger kinda guy..it's what fits on the edge of the dishwasher and in the pie pan I use to hold bottles while capping...the antique thing slows me up a bit....

 

[Minbari]

I always did 6 at a time. But with kegging, i use a counter pressure filler and cap each one right away

 

[Zambi]

I do an arbitrary number. Sometimes all just get a cap but not crimped. Sometimes not all. Depending on space.
Glad to see I'm not the only one using the simple red capper

 

[Ward Chillington]

Red cappers rock!

And step one is here in the dishwasher with the bottling bucket up on the counter.

I can also take those 4 bottles pretty easily in one trip over to the table for capping, you get a rhythm going.

 

[Donoroto]

Red cappers rock!
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And step one is here in the dishwasher with the bottling bucket up on the counter.
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I can also take those 4 bottles pretty easily in one trip over to the table for capping, you get a rhythm going.

I have both a fancy upright Italian capper and a couple if Red cappers...and I prefer the Red one, it just works better.

 

[Minbari]

I have both a fancy upright Italian capper and a couple if Red cappers...and I prefer the Red one, it just works better.

It really does. I removed the bell on my red capper and installed it in the Italian one

 

[Zambi]

I have both a fancy upright Italian capper and a couple if Red cappers...and I prefer the Red one, it just works better.

Awesome, as I keep thinking I should get an upright one, so you saved me a lot of money with that comment

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

No, I put a cap on each one as I fill it then crimp them when all are filled.

That's what I do. I start with empties on the left, bottling bucket in the middle and filled & capped bottles on the right. Then I replace the bottling bucket with a bench capper and start crimping with everything going right to left.

 

[Ward Chillington]

I have both a fancy upright Italian capper and a couple if Red cappers...and I prefer the Red one, it just works better.

I think I'd like the upright better on a higher countertop...it's still cool to use something as old as it is!

 

[Herm brews]

I bottle directly from my fermenter, using a bottling wand. Since there isn’t any need to rush in order to avoid oxidation, I cap and crimp, one bottle at a time. After my last bottling, where I thought my oral syringe was dead, I figured out that the plunger rubber needed a little shave. After giving that rubber a little shave, I found that all is right in the world. So my next batch will be properly dosed, per bottle, then filled, capped and crimped as I go.

 

[MaxStout]

I go with the "fill and lay a cap on each and all" method, then crimp the batch. I sit in a chair and fill over the dishwasher with the door open to catch drips. I don't want to keep getting up and down to switch from one job to the other.

I picked up some plastic Pop Shop bottle crates at a yard sale a few years ago. It makes for a stable place to set the newly-filled bottles before I crimp them.