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That's the only thing I could think of although it seems I mixed the priming mixture in pretty well by racking on top of it. It seems to me that the ABV wouldn't be that much different otherwise anyway but I can definitely tell a difference in how much I get buzzed by the better aged bottles...

That's probably true but it's so hard to do when you know some are aged well but you won't know until you crack the bottle and pour it! Lol So is it better to fill the bottles a little more or a little less? I do plan on doing so eventually. I still have to price such a transition out...

I did a search of the forums and couldn't find an exact answer to my question here... I've been drinking my first brew for the past week (aged 3 1/2 weeks now) and I'm having consistency issues. Most of my bottles seem kind of "green" ala thin head, short lasting head, flavor not quite there...

Well I opened a bottle of my first homebrew tonight after 4 weeks of fermentation and 3 weeks of being in the bottle. It was an extract Coopers Continental Pilsner Kit. So I opened the bottle, got the fizz of carbonation. I poured it in a glass and there is pretty much no head. The head only...

Well I ended up bottling on Sunday. I had to rack the beer to my glass carboy on Saturday to clean out the bottling bucket then the next day i racked back to the bucket and had my first bottling session. Everything went pretty well. It just seemed to take some time, but I was just making sure...

So I don't have to wait for the airlock to die down again before bottling? I thought that if it was still fermenting that it would create too much CO2 in the bottle and explode. Also, what if I racked to another container, cleaned the bottling bucket, and racked back to bottling bucket on...

I'm working on my first brew. It's a Muntons English Pilsner and I've fermented for 4 weeks. I didnt rack to secondary because I've scoured the forums and found that secondary isn't necessary but the kicker here is that my primary is my bottling bucket. Last week (week 3) I tested the brew...