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And the water bottles, at least the Culligan ones that are in my kitchen are plastic grade 7 and as far as I know, it's only good to take plastics 1 and 2 and the higher up the worse it is. I have a Better Bottle that I use for secondary and it's a number 1 PETE. I guess that's the difference...

Ok, thanks all.

I had to put individual amounts of sugar in each of my bottles, dont ask why, and Im wondering if I need to shake it up or just it sit?

Ok, thanks.

I do the partial wort boil where I boil the extract with some water in a pot and then dump it in the fermenter, followed by cold or hot water to get temp to where I want it. How long should it boil on the stove for?

Now I may be wrong but from what I've heard it's bad to use water jugs because they leech chemicals cause they're crappy plastic, but I'm a noob so I could be wrong.

Ok everyone, thanks again for helping a noob out.

Ok, thanks, I guess I should ignore the instructions on the beer kit then? It's Canadian Red Beer and it says "7 days in a warm dark place and a further 12 to 14 days in a cool place." Does that seem right or should I just do like you said and leave it in an unplugged fridge for 3 weeks?

Um, I didn't boil the sugar, I put individual amounts of sugar in each bottle (I know I'm supposed to put it in my primary but my primary is a little, let's just say out of commission) and then I stored in an unplugged fridge at room temp for about a week so far. I'm going to plug the fridge in...

I bottled my beer in those PET bottles with some sugar in them but there isn't really any bubbles and at the bottom of the bottle is a white layer of sediment. Whats up?

Ok, thanks everyone! Ill see if I get a cidery flavour in my beer.

I'm just about to bottle my beer but I don't have any of that corn sugar/dextrose/whatever it's called, can I just use regular sugar instead? Also, I plan on putting the sugar individually in each bottle so I do need to move from secondary vessel to primary vessel in that case?

Thanka everyone. I had a feeling I was reading my thing wrong. I guess I'll find out when it finishes fermentation huh?

original is supposed to be between 1.030 and 1.040 and its supposed to end up being beween 1.004 and 1.012

I bought some Canadian Red Beer malt extract and did my thing. I primary fermented it for a week or so, then moves it to secondary where its been sitting for a week(I'm going off the instructions in the kit). I stuck a much-needed hydrometer in there and the reading I'm getting is 1.2 which...