Summer drinks - update

Just after my last post I checked on the beer and it had almost reached a final gravity but wasn't quite there.  I wanted to remove the hops and let the beer age a few days on its own before bottling.  I also wanted to finish the wine in a glass carboy.  I always worry about off flavours with the plastic when I start getting close to bottling so avoid it whenever possible.

I transferred the beer 3 days ago into a secondary and let it settle again.  Once I was happy with the clarity and I was satisfied with my final gravity reading of 1.005 I bottled the lager. 

A use the Cooper's carbonation drops since I prefer to know that each bottle is getting the exact priming sugar that is required.  I use 1 Litre PET bottle for bottling mostly.  I have some single serving size bottles as well and will fill 2L pop bottles when doing a batch for friends if they prefer.  I use a little less sugar than some but allow it to fully carbonate before I drink.  I find it holds a better head this way for some reason.

Once I had the beer all bottled I went ahead and transferred the wine over to the other glass carboy.  I added the Potassium metabisulphite and began the degassing process that I should have completed by tonight.

So far everything looks very, very good.