Showing You Guys What Exactly Goes On In a Bottling Day

Greetings all! I am back with another bottling day post. This time it is my Cocoa Cherry Mead. I had a bit too much headspace in the carboy and I was worried about oxidation as I was looking some color, so I decided to go ahead and bottle it and let if bottle age. Now instead of the obligatory bottle porn I normally post I decided to let you guys see what goes into bottling meads.

 Here you see my Blackberry[no post on this, too simple and not blog worthy] and Cocoa Cherry meads. The thing inside of the jug in the carboy is a racking cane. You pump it and it creates a vacuum that sucks the fluid down into the tube into a bottle.

 As you see here, the fluid flows into the bottle. The white clamp on the hose is what you press to stop the flow of liquid so you don't spill your precious wine all over the floor. 

And here is the bottle porn. I love the color on these. The left is Blackberry and the right is Cocoa Cherry. Despite the darkness of it, the last two on the left are blackberry too. 

Laters, next post I will show you how I made chicken for thanksgiving. If you have any questions/complaints/suggestions feel free to comment and let me know.