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Read elsewhere about the plastic underneath the caps, but the rust made its way onto the plastic part as well..should have mentioned this; we boiled the caps before we put them on to kill anything but now I'm wondering if that could have made em worse. Crap

So tonight I called my brew partner over to bottle our American amber ale that we brewed 3 weeks. ago. We made the priming solution and racked the beer and sanitized and cleaned all of the bottles...but when I went to grab the caps..(which were the leftover from a previous batch) they were...

Last one! Sediment on top as well.

This is of the full Better bottle

Hello! I brewed my 2nd batch 3 days ago, an amber ale. I went to check on it tonight when I got home and noticed a bunch of clumpy sediment on the bottom of the better bottle. My first batch was a German hef and it had the same sediment but it was layered and collected..it basically looked much...

Yes we boiled according to the instructions sheet..I even called the brew store and asked the guy if what happened sounded right and he said yes. It just looked like a dark brown solid glassy substance and smelled like creme brûlée, that's the only way I know how to describe it haha. The...

Thank you all! I have one more question about my first German hef batch. I left it fermenting for 3 weeks, then racked and bottled and let condition for 2 weeks. When using the priming sugar, I added it into the bucket when it was all syrupy and by the time I. Had racked my beer in there it...

Hi all! I just brewed my second batch yesterday, my first being a German hef in which I got the recipe from a local brew store. The hef recipe stated to put a blow off hose due to high yeast activity,which I did. But the amber ale that I'm currently brewing did not, so I didn't. Two days after...