Infinitrium
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Since I first registered and posted here, I've made a Coopers Lager kit which turned out pretty terrible. I followed the instructions included with that kit, 1 week in the fermenter and 2 weeks in the bottles. This was a terrible brew. I've got a few bottles of that first batch left, they've been in the fridge about 2 weeks now (for a total of 4 weeks in bottles) and they haven't improved at all.I just don't know why it turned out as bad as it did, maybe I didn't sanitize properly or something. After the Coopers kit was out of the fermenter and into the bottles, I followed it up with a Festa Brew cream ale kit. This one turned out pretty good, but still a few bottles weren't much good. I again followed the directions included with the kit, 1 week in the fermenter and 2 weeks in bottles. Once that kit was consumed (which occured rather fast ), I started a Festa Brew dry kit. I decided to try leaving this particular one in the fermenter for 2 weeks this time. I also bought a carboy because I thought priming the batch would be easier that way. I siphoned off the brew from the fermenter into the carboy, poured in the priming sugar (i used dextrose because I was feeling cheap), gave the mix a good stir then bottled it. That was 4 days ago now, and I opened one bottle to check earlier today. No carbonation detected, but I suppose that's to be expected after only 4 days. I'm hoping this current batch turns out even better than the Festa Brew cream ale. I'm still feeling a little letdown after the failure of my first brewing experience.