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Thank you. I realise that I may have put too much sugar in the bottles, which is why it tastes so yeasty. I've put a heaped teaspoon into 500ml fizzy water bottles. Is that a lot and is there any chance the bottles could split? Is it a good idea to let the pressure off, if so will the beer...

Thankyou. I did use a syphon stick, with an inch extension, so as not to disturb the sediment/trub, the SG was about 1.005 or so. Should the beer be syphoned into another bin and then left to settle again for a day or two? If I use less sugar in the bottles, say half a teaspoon, would it...

I bottled my first homebrew made from a kit about three weeks ago. It was a simple kit (Woodfordes Wherry Bitter, the sugar was already in), I just emptied the can into a bin filled it up with luke warm water, added the dried yeast, bottled it when it ceased being active putting a teaspoon of...