You need old empty beer bottles, I like the 500ml size as smaller bottles tend to be a pain to work with.



I am never organised enough to have the number of bottles I need when I need them, so I have a simple strategy for getting them.



I go to the bottle bank and put out a box and a sign taped to the bank asking people to put bottle in the box.



Now you need to clean your bottles. You might also want to remove the old labels,



At this point you will discover that all labels are not the same. A lot of companies are now using plastic labels that don't come off. One of the joys of bottle bank collection is you soon, get to know the good from the bad, and if you have enough available you can "afford" to throw the bad back into the bank.



At this point the beer should be "fermented out" that is to say it should have stopped making new bubbles (or very much slowed down)



Having washed the bottles, I submerge them in sterilising solution, you can use a brewing one or tablets for babies bottles. They then get a rinse.



I prepare my bottles by adding a half a teaspoon of sugar to each, this will ferment after the bottle is sealed and make it fizzy.



The liquid in the brewing bucket is then syphoned off using some plastic tube, I have a fancy brewing tool that keeps the pipe near the bottom, but out of the sediment, our goal is to leave as much sediment behind as we can.



With the bottles filled, I used put crown caps on the bottles, these are easy to do, you just hammer them on with a cheap tool.



Leave the bottles in a warm place for the fermentation to finish off then drink. If you leave it a few days and pour carefully, you can leave the yeast in the bottle, the ginger in mine made it look cloudy whatever you did.