And yes, it was worth every bit of effort it required.
When this it true, the amount of time makes no difference at all.
Congrats on the milestone!
Out of curiosity, what kind of beer was it?
All NAILs - of course . Seriously though, everything from cream ale and semi-light lagers to 120 gravity monster beers - except for sour beers, cacn't stand sour beer!
Ha! I just meant what was in the 10,000th bottle.
A beer I call Wyoming Common, years ago it started out as a Cal Common but eventually morphed into something entirely different, that one that put me ever 10K happened to be my 200th batch. It's almost 50% Rye with maize, barley is well under 50% of the grist, and I don't even use Cal lager yeast anymore, O.G. about 65 to 70 and ABV a bit over 7%.
It would be nice and a lot less work to keg some of my beers but that isn't currently feasible. I have a lot of big beers that are several years old, most of which keep improving with age, and I like to keep a couple beers from the last of a batch of something I regularly make to compare to the next batch, especially when I make adjustments to a recipe, so I'll have to keep bottling. And I really do like to have a lot of variety available cuz I never know what I'm gonna feel like drinking.