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I found that having the bottles soak in a cooler full of ice water for a few days makes the labels slip off before you even pick the bottles up!

I just completed my second batch myself. Definately more confident but not ready to take any risks. Good luck with this batch.

Do you mean leaving the beer in the primary fermenter for a whole month even long after actual fermentation has ceased? Thank you all for your comments.

I had trouble starting the siphon process last time as well. I just poured the beer in directly. I know that, ideally, it shouldn't be done that way, but it worked out just fine for me.

Does anyone know how to avoid the yeast sediment that forms at the bottom of each bottle? I was thinking about letting the whole beer sit in a secondary container after I add the priming sugar so all the yeast sets to the bottom at once - and then bottle it from there. Does that sound...