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I made a wheat beer and for various reasons I could not bottle at the 3 week mark like I wanted. It has now been fermenting for 58 days (8 weeks). Is it ruined? Should I bottle and hope for the best? Any input is appreciated, thanks everyone!

I finished my first english pale ale about 3 days ago and bottled it and went to go look at a couple and they have this white film on the top of each bottle. When i brewed my blonde batch about 3 weeks ago I never noticed such film. Anyone have any ideas? Is it normal or does it have to do with...

I was over at a friends and we were finishing bottling up and we had about 2 beers worth of bottling left to do and ran out of bottles. So as an experiment we used a 1 wine bottle for the last 2 and re-corked (just pushed the cork all the way back down) it just to see what would happen. What can...

Can you use twist off bottles when bottling your beer? I have a capper and caps and have tried to cap an empty twist off bottle and it worked, but it seems like the seal was not as tight as a re-capped pry off bottle. Do I need to make sure I use pry off bottles only? Thanks for the help

With my first batch I used a standard dry yeast and am now wanting to experiment with liquid yeast (White Labs WLP 005 for a British Ale). I know I need to do a starter to evaluate the health of the yeast (which is what I read). But I have no idea what that means. How do I test the yeast to make...

I have been reading the board for about a month now and a lot of people have helped even though they have no idea. Just started brewing about a month ago and have one batch under my belt and a second one coming soon. Look forward to talking about brewing!