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Disagree with this one. Using a teaspoon medicine dropper and a sugar solution worked great for me and was very easy without the extra exposure to oxygen. I'll never use a bottling bucket.

Thanks for the responses. I ended up bottling as is. It was drinkable, but not great. I'm going to chalk it up as beginners unluckiness and try again with an IPA and some Safale us-05.

Just got my 50# bag of Briess pilsen dme from midcountymalt (The Country Malt Group) It was a bit of work to portion it into 3# freezer baggies, but it ended up being $118 shipped, or $2.36 a pound. I needed to call to order, as I didn't see it in their catalog.

Thanks for the response. It's an amber ale. Just Light LME, and Some Crystal 60. Pretty hoppy, about 50 IBU. I'm using a 3-gallon glass carboy.

My first batch as a home brewer is in the primary right now I started at 1.058 and it's been sitting for 2 weeks in the primary. I'm using munton's ale yeast, and I'm making a 3 gallon batch. It fermented at about 68 degrees, and bubbled about once a second for 2 days. After that things...