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Turns out it was a bad capper, talked to the LHBS and they said they had a few like that swapped for a different one and it worked like a champ on my next batch. Bottling isn't as bad as I though. Still want to go to Kegs.

I asked this question to my local homebrew shop and he recomended once the foam has receeded and your airlock has slowed to one or two bubbles per minutes you are ready to rack to the secondary. remain in the secondary until your gravity hasn't changed for three consecutive days and your yeast...

I am swinging by the homebrew store and buying a bag of caps and taking them home and testing on some empty bottles and see what I am doing wrong. I am sticking with user error.

The bottles were bought from the local homebrew store and were definately not twist off bottles. Caps were overrun caps that came in the kit from the same store. Must be user error.

With my two stage brewing kit came a capper, two handle push down model. I was bottling my first batch last weekend and had issues capping. I actually cracked two bottles (necks) while capping. Is there a trick to this process other than sanitizing the caps, centering on the bottle, placing...