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I Brew Beer (Part 3)

Bottling Day! In case you can't tell from the picture above, I decided to name the inaugural beer batch after the dog. Specifically I named it "Professor Shelby McBarkface Nut Brown Ale." It's a mouthful, I know.

A brief and pretty pointless history on the name:
We've talked about breeding our yellow lab, Shelby, in the past. Since she's a purebred lab, if we were to breed her we'd want to have her registered with the AKC. When you do that, you get to give your dog an 'official' name that stays on the record. Because simply "Shelby" is clearly a nickname, I came up with Professor Shelby McBarkface as a strong candidate for official naming purposes. While we haven't bred her yet, I think its also an excessively long, but entertaining name for a beer as well. And there you have it...

Below are some pictures from the process. There aren't many action shots because I was home by myself when I bottled. For now, the beer has to sit in the bottles for 1-2 weeks to carbonate. I'll let everyone knows it tastes when I crack the first one.