I suspect that I am a creature bound to impatience.  I couldn't wait until the end of the month to bottle.  Sigh.  Once headed into this direction, I was, of course, bound to rotate my stock.  On the good note, I was able to bottle a total of twenty-four 750 ml bottles out of the 5 gallon carboy I use at the tail end.  I was very happy about this.  I used the PrivatE PreservE gas blanket on each  of the bottles as I corked them up.  I spritzed 2 or 3 short bursts of the canister in the neck of the bottle just before I inserted the cork.

Here is the second round of bottling:

Just to the right of the bottles is the canister of PrivatE PreservE.  I put the cork in the corker, placed it over the top of the bottle and set it back just a hair so that I could put the tube of the PrivatE PreservE into the neck of the bottle and shoot in a bit of gas.  Then I quickly inserted the cork.  In the background to the right, you can see the pretty much emptied carboy.

I took one of the bottles outside and put it on a fence post:

I thought it looked pretty good and am happy with the flavor at the moment.  It has a noticeable spice to it.  It will take a few more months for the flavor to peak and I hope I can wait on this...

On to the round robin of moving fluid around.  I transferred contents around until I had my plastic carboy emptied.  Here is a shot of the carboys being racked off and a shot of the remaining three carboys with the empty plastic one in the front.  Time to get more honey...

   

Again, not very clear.  I think I am going to have to use Robin's camera rather than my phone.  Ah well...it looks much better in real life.  Perhaps it it simply my eyes.  I don't use my glasses often enough and maybe the pictures are really clear?  I know better though.

I did add more syrup to the bees today.  They are getting a bit more brazen about letting me know that while they like the delivery, they could do without the man about.  I may need to start smoking them just a bit in the near future.  

It is beautiful outside right now but it is evening and I need to get ready for my weekend of night shift.  Take care, enjoy the weekend and life that is out there.