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Ok great and thanks for the encouragement. Out of curiousity I went ahead and dumped the whole bottle in a glass, let it settle out, and drank slowely off the top. Sure enough there were a number of yeasties on the bottom, but nothing compared to the sediment I've seen in some of my buddy's...

Thought I missed something in my original post. Ambient is between 70-72 in my master bedroom closet.

Hi all, My first brew has been in the bottle for 2 weeks and 4 days. I've cracked a few open over this time period to see how the taste has been developing and I have a couple of questions. As expected the flavor is getting less green and developing some carbonation, however I haven't seen...

This is a blessing in disguise! How often do you get the chance to stock up on supplies with the excuse that it is all for your lovely wife? Just say that they had a minimum amount you could buy per ingrediant at your LHBS and BOOM. You now have 40 different ingrediants to toy around with for...

^^^^^ This is the way to go. Now they even have the plastic Guiness Draught bottles without the widget. I bottled this past weekend and it took me about 10 minutes to remove all of the labels.

Just to update this thread - I bottled this weekend and popped one open to see how bad the skunk was in my beer. To my surprise it wasn't bad at all! It amounted to a very slight off taste, but nothing that would put you off. With a few weeks in the bottle and served chilled I think it will...

Haha, Thanks for the encouragement.

Could extra conditioning help mitigate this?

Shamefully bumping.

Hi all, This is my first brew and I'll be bottling this weekend, but I'm afraid that I made a crucial error today. I'm brewing the BB American Amber Lager, but it has been super dark and cloudy throughout the process so I wanted to give it a nice cold crash before bottling to clear things...