The time was upon us. Christmas was fast approaching and the supplies of Ginger Beer were dwindling.
Chris wisely organised a couple of beers (Ginger Beer and a Pilsener) to be laid down for canning in early Dec.
On the day we had a team of willing workers:
Chris and his brothers Al and David and son Luke. Tari even came along to peer into "man land" to see how it was all done and what all the fuss was about.
Al, Me and Chris "inspecting" the Ginger Beer prior to canning
As we were veterans at the game now, we were quickly organised and underway. Apart from a minor technical hiccup with gas pressures causing very frothy beer, all went smoothly. Luke even dropped a couple of "land mines" into the mix by canning a can of straight tap water instead of beer. I hope you end up with them Luke.....
Chris and Al gassing and filling cans - no stuffing about here...
Me rolling the end stock onto the cans - look at the concentration
David giving me a spell as it's such a demanding job ;-)
He was operating under instruction from Luke.
The eskies quickly filled with 200-odd half litre cans of delicious homebrew.
In what seemed like the blink of an eye (but was more like 2 hours) - the job was done. All we can do now is enjoy our beer and dream of returning to man-land once more.....
One of the eskies being filled at a great rate of knots.
Tari came along to watch poetry in motion.
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