{"id":3589,"date":"2013-07-01T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T20:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2013-07-01T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T21:45:16","slug":"bottling-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/3589\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottling Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished my first batch of mead in shiny new three-gallon containers.  They were a bit expensive for plastic containers, but they are specially made for brewing and can be used over and over.<\/p>\n<p>Three gallons of mead is a lot when you&#8217;re used to one-gallon batches, but it saves a lot of work.  Here&#8217;s pictures from my latest bottling.<\/p>\n<p>Sanitizing and cleaning bottles:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1054-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1054\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1054-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1054-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Siphons:  They work!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1055-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1055\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1055-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1055-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1058.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1058-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1058\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1058-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1058-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_10601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_10601-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1060\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_10601-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_10601-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished my first batch of mead in shiny new three-gallon containers. They were a bit expensive for plastic containers, but they are specially made for brewing and can be used over and over. Three gallons of mead is a lot when you&#8217;re used to one-gallon batches, but it saves a lot of work. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}