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your brewing description did not mention any hops addidion. are you using pre-hopped extract? If not, the lack of hops could be the reason forf the beer going sour.

I just heat up the oven to ~150, turn off the heat, put the mash pot with lid in the oven, close the oven door and wait. I get very little heat loss that way.

5 gal pale ale 5 gallons moose drool clone 5743 + 10 = 5744

Are you sure that you are getting a good seal on your bottles? If the caps are not on tight enough, the CO2 could just be leaking out.

I brewed the same kit in December, left it in the primary for 4 weeks and then bottled in early Jan. Now, after a little more than 5 weeks in the bottle it is just starting to taste OK. So if you wait a bit longer, it will continue to get better.

5 gal Isish Red 2,447.5

The yeast are probably still at work and what you are seeing is the CO2 that they ware releasing. You probably need to leave it for a while before you try to bottle it.

5 gal porter 1445

Just move it back ko a slightly warmer area and you should be good to go.

My first was a Grain Belt my cousin and I found floating in a lake while fishing. It was fairly warm and tasted like CRAP! - We poured most of it out! Then a year or so later, I was given a cold Grain Belt after a HOT day of baling hay and it tasted GREAT. I have been a beer drinker ever since!

you may want to try some bleach in the water instead of the iodophor to avoid the staining issues.

If you are worried about sediment in the bottling bucket, just leave the bucket tilted slightly during the secondary fermentation (spigot side higher - just use a wooden shim or something under one edge). This will cause most of the sedimentation to collect on the far side of the bucket.

My first brew was also a Munton's kit and it did smell like crap in the fermenter! But after bottle conditioning at room temp for about a month it got to tasting pretty good. Just have patience (and faith!).

Just remember to use the correct dilution and you are good to go. If you put too much Iodophor in your solution, it is no longer no rinse. Goos Luck!

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