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I brewed an ale with an OG of 1.079 at the end of July and bottled it towards the end of August. Since then I have sampled it occasionally and it is still not fully carbonated. It has a very slight pffft when I open it, but it just does not bubble and it tastes like it needs to be carbonated...

My first couple of batches were Brewers Best kits and the instructions said to boil like a cup of water and dissolve the priming sugar. When I look at recipes they do not have that instruction, just the amount of priming sugar/DME. I have always dissolved the priming sugar or DME in boiled water...

I will be bottling my honey oatmeal stout this weekend. When we took the FG reading I noticed that my original 5 gallon batch is quite a bit smaller now. We did rack into a carboy a few weeks ago and left a bunch of stuff in the bottom of the bucket. I was surprised to see how much has dropped...

I have done a few kits and did my first recipe last weekend. There recipe was for a full boil. The book said it was ok to do it as a partial boil if boil pot space was an issue and so that is what I did. It of course was quite thick when siphoning into the primary and so we added water along the...

Hi all! My name is Amy and I live in O'Fallon, IL which is across the river from St. Louis. I'm excited to find this forum! DH and my kids got me a brewing kit for my birthday in November. I am getting ready to bottle my first brew this evening. I'm currently using Brewer's Best kits - I've...