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I'm trying to figure out what I'm seeing with my bottle conditioned beers. I bottle with sugar and wait the recommended 2-3 weeks. (Unfortunately, SWMBO requires all my beer to reside in the basement so during the cooler months, I'm conditioning at 60-65 degrees F at best, but I see a similar...

If you're relying on the dishwasher to actually clean the interior of the bottles, you would be wise to plan another round of washing. The mouths are too small to get much water in the bottles -- much less clean them. Nothing beats a bottle brush and some elbow grease.

@ Xeno: Thanks for the responses. The fermenter was shaken, not stirred. In all honesty, I'm not sure how you'd get a stirring device down into a carboy, but I'll leave that for another day. I thought I was shaking it rather efficiently, but I took another look at it just now and it seems...

I put together a partial mash recipe based on Jamil's Lagunitas IPA clone (AG) found here: http://beerdujour.com/Recipes/Jamil/JamilsLagunitasIPA.htm After mashing the grains and topping off the kettle, I stirred the wort to get a good distribution and took a sample for a gravity reading...

That's what I needed. Thank you sir!

Fair enough... Doesn't answer the question about yeast though. I used the Montrachet wine yeast and it's been sitting in the basement at about 68 degrees the entire period. I just want to make sure if I bottle it that there is going to be some yeast around to do it's thing.

@Daver77 - I've got a 5 gal batch that's been sitting for 3 months now. I read through the first 20 pages of this thread and didn't see an answer so I'm giving up and just asking... Did you have to add any yeast and/or fermentables prior to bottling? Thanks.

I've got mine between the two lips. Right or wrong...it's working thus far.

Check out the Pro vs Cons sticky thread for info on buckets vs carboys and a lot of other items beginners sweat about. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/vs-pro-con-analysis-109318/

Sweet.

I have some carboy caps that I have yet to use (using boiled water to start the siphons for the first few brews through the system), but I read somewhere that blowing through a HEPA filter (like this one: http://www.northernbrewer.com/default/in-line-sanitary-filter.html) should take care of the...