I just bottled my second batch and was cleaning the spigot to my bottling bucket when I found a clump of grease. I don't think it is any sort of beer residue. It is clean and transparent but slightly cloudy - very much like a bearing grease or vaseline. I suspect it shipped to me like this and...
First time brewer here (bottling my first batch this Sunday). I picked up my BB after racking and the whole bottle flexed enough to suck some fluid out of the airlock. That's not going to happen with glass, or if you put the BB in a milkcrate, or just wait to put the airlock in when you put the...