Welcome to Homebrew Extreme - Your beer brewing home! Want to brew some beer? We'll show you how. Everything you need to know to brew great beer, at home.

First let's prepare the bottles. If you are using "used" bottles, visibly inspect them. People put all kinds of nasty things inside bottles, cigarette butts, gum, and what not, and we sure don't want them in our beer.

Remove the old labels from the bottles. This is sometimes much easier said then done. I have found that by soaking the bottles in a bath of VERY hot water, then using a brillo pad, I can usually scrape the labels and glue off the bottles. There are MANY other ways of getting the labels off. Perhaps if you know of a great way to do it, you can post it in our forums.

I then like to thoroughly wash my bottles by placing them, upside down, on the bottom rack of my dishwasher. I use HOT water, but NO SOAP. This will clean the bottles well. Lastly, using the same bleach solution as described in "The Brew" section, fill each bottle completely and let it soak in the solution for a couple minutes, before thoroughly rinsing the bottle with cold water.

You'll also want to place your new beer caps in the sanitizing solution for a minute or two, and rinse them very well.

Though it is greatly preferable to use a racking cane to bottle your beer, a simple tube can be used.

If there is one thing that need be said well in advance, be VERY careful not to allow your beer to be shaken or disturbed while it is being transferred to the bottles.

First, prepare your priming (corn) sugar. Place about 2 cups of water in a saucepan and heat it up, then add 3/4 cup of corn sugar and boil for about 10 minutes.

Pour the priming sugar mixture into your fermenter. Than, careful and slowly syphon the fermented beer for the fermentation vessel into the bottling bucket. DO NOT USE YOUR MOUTH to start the syphon. Make sure the fermenter is placed on a counter or table so that it is higher than the bottling bucket. Fill the sanitized syphoning tube with water, pinching both ends. Place one into the beer (not all the way to the bottom, we do not want to syphon the yeast sediment, just the beer). Then place the other end an inch or two from the bottom of the bottling bucket and release. The water in the tube will start the syphon, and is not enough quantity to effect your beer.

Once your beer is fully syphoned into the bottling bucket, you are ready to start filling the bottles.

If you are using a racking cane, simply connect the hose to your faucet or spigot on your bottling bucket, and the other end to the cane. Insert the cane all the way into the bottles, and press down on the bottom. This will allow the beer to flow into the bottle.

If using the tubing, simply use the faucet on the bucket to start and stop the flow of beer into the bottle. Make sure you put the tube all the way down into the bottle, so as to avoid splashing the beer.

CAP EACH BOTTLE AS SOON AS IT IS FILLED. We don't want any of those nasty bacteria in our beer, so make sure to cap each bottle as you fill it.

That's it! Store your beer in a room temperature, DARK location for 2 or more weeks. As a general rule, the longer you wait, the better the beer will be (within reason, beer that sets too long can spoil, but that takes months). The location does not need to be pitch black dark, but the darker the better.

Make sure to chill your beer for at least 24 hours before popping the top. Some yeast sediment will settle to the bottom of the bottle, so always pour homebrewed beer into a clean glass, don't drink from the bottle. Also, when pouring, do so slowly and be careful not to pour the sediment in to your glass. It won't hurt you in anyway if you drink it, but it doesn't taste all that good.

Congratulations, you are now a HOMEBREWER!