ArizonaJohn
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Hey everyone, just joined this forum today and have been reading up quite a bit. Well, like a lot of others here my girlfriend got me the monster brew starting kit for my birthday (Oct. 20th) which comes with 3 five gallon ingredient kits, 2 buckets, one for fermentation one for bottling, bottling equipment, caps, bottles, hydrometer..ect.. the usual. Well, I started first by making the Amber Ale because I figure this would be my least favorite so its a good place to start, wont be too hurt if it doesn't come out great. Anyways, the making of the wort went just fine according to the Amber Ale directions. My question is, the directions say it will usually be ready to bottle within a week. After reading up on here, I have been pondering letting it go for 3 weeks. I understand that you don't want to do much more time than that in plastic buckets, but is one week just too unrealistic and short? And, does more time usually seem to relate to better beer? I also have read that once it is bottled to let it be for another couple weeks before drinking it, but does this mean after bottling immediately put it in the fridge or wait a bit before that? Again, I know there are a lot of different techniques but any advice would be very helpful. Sorry if this has all been asked before, but for some reason the search feature won't work on my computer? Thanks again.