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Just put the lid on my second batch ever! this one is a wheat beer. I pushed the rubber stopper on the lid too hard and it fell in the wort :(. Hopefully I did a good enough job sanitizing it so that it won't contaminate my beer. I guess i'll find out in about 5 or 6 weeks.

Relax, I never said was "unwilling" to get a bottling bucket. Re-read my last post, I plan to siphon from my primary fermenter to my carboy to get rid of the trub, then i'll bottle from there. I understand the need to rack into a different vessel before I bottle, that was never the point of...

Thanks for all the advice, i think what I'll end up doing is only using a primary this time around and i'll follow one of the above poster's advice and try it with a secondary next time around to see what I prefer. Since i'm only using a primary and since I have no bottle bucket, i'll put the...

Thanks for the fast replies everyone. One more quick question that's been on my mind. If i do decide to rack to my 5-gallon carboy either to bottle from there or to leave it there as a secondary, I am just supposed to open my current bucket and stick the siphon in? I'm guessing the air that...

Ok, this is my first post on these forums so go easy on me. I'm currently on my first batch and so i'm trying to keep things as simple as possible for myself as I get familiar with the brewing process. I'm trying to figure out when to bottle and if racking into a secondary is necessary or not...