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Hey, thanks Pigman. How can you tell by looking at it if the beer is conditioned or not? It's been bottled for almost 2 weeks now, curious to know what I should be looking for before I place in the fridge. Also, it is one of those grolsch type growlers, its pretty substantial, hoping it...

Moved my bottles from the basement, my 1st floor stays between 65 and 70. Turned each bottle upside down and back gently to activate the yeast. Each bottle had white sediment at the bottom of the bottles, when I turned bottle upside down and back gently you could see it get cloudy in the beer...

Thanks, I will def. give it more time and use the hydrometer readings for my next brew. Also, is there a time frame of when bottle bombs are no longer a concern, say if they've been bottled for a month, if it hasn't exploded by then it should be safe, and is it still possible to have this...

Good to know, in the future I will give more time than just a week before i bottle. Are there any signs that will let you know if primary fermentation has run its course before bottling? Or is the key just giving it time?

Thanks for all the responses, finding the toughest part of the brew process being the waiting and anxiety that it's either going to explode or come out flat when I taste it. I feel like a kid with his count down to Christmas! Oh, and the guy at my LHBS told me to go ahead and use my growler...

Oh, and I think I left a little extra head room because i figured it might help avoid exploding bottles, would that have any effect? Or if it's not done fermenting when you bottle you'll get a bomb no matter how much head room you leave?

Yeah, I used the wand, but I stupidly was thinking I might need more room for the 22's and growler, so I wasn't going all the way to the brim. Also, from the 12's I was afraid of spillage, so I may have not have been going all the way to the brim, but pretty close, just hoping I don't have too...

Thanks for the responses, by bombs I am guessing that you mean bottles that explode while conditioning? Haven't had that problem. When I 1st fermented the yeast went right to work, I had good fermentation within 10 to 12 hrs. (Foaming and bubbling airlock that I could see), that went on for...

Hello all, I recently brewed my 1st batch of American Wheat and bottled it about a week and 1/2 ago. It's primary fermentation was 1 week then I primed and bottled it as per the kit's instructions. It said to bottle and condition in a cool space for about a month. I did the primary...

Sounds good, can't wait to get a few batches under my belt using some kits so I can start experimenting with other recipe's and some of my own concoctions.

Wow, thats exactly what I did, I had to top off about 3/4 of a gallon of water after adding my wort to fermenter, don't think I stirred or mixed after. Sounds like I should be good then. Thanks for the quick responses, feeling a little more confident that I didn't screw it up all that bad...

Ok, excellent. I'll take it off and sanitize and put back, thanks for the help. Was nervous this morning when I saw more than just bubbles this morning when I woke. Also, I had another question. According to the recipe for this kit the beginning sg for this brew was supposed to be...

Hey there, this is my 1st post and am in the process of making my 1st batch of brew. I keep reading here about bubbles in the airlock. My question is that I have a lot of bubbling going on in my airlock about 18 hrs. after I added everything to the fermenter, but I also have some brown sludge...