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I am going to bottle after 4 to 5 weeks. After this long, will there still be enough yeast in suspension to carbonate properly in the bottles? Does anybody recommend adding more yeast with the priming solution?

After 3 weeks in primary and 3 weeks in bottle conditioning, this beer turned out great. The cloudiness settled after a week in the bottle. Carbonation is just right. Thanks for all the tips!

Yeah that's what I'm going to do. I have a trip coming up and I was going to bottle before that, but I'm just going to leave it in the primary fermenter and bottle when I get back and give it time to mellow out. Thanks.

Guys, I cooked up a self invented porter recipe. Started fermentation on Friday and I tested a sample today. Recipe: 6 lbs light DME 1 lb honey 0.5 lb Caramel 80L 0.5 lb Chocolate 0.25 lb Black 0.75 oz Pearle 9% @ 60 min 1.00 oz Fuggles 4.5% @ 30 min I tested SG and...

Update: Today, a week after I dry hopped and fermentation got going again, I measured gravity and it is 1.012. So it got stuck at 1.020 after two weeks and started again with the disturbance of the dry hopping and finally reached a level a tad below the FG target of 1.015. The beer is still...

Soviet, Thanks for your reply: 1) Partial boil. I boiled 2 gallons ahead of time, I let them cool completely and poured them into the carboy (that took care of the chlorine and sanitation of the water). Then I boiled the ingredients in 4 additional gallons. Final volume when pitched into the...

Hi guys, This is my very first batch and I am very confused. I have done many hours of search and reading and I haven't found a case like mine so bear with me. Here it goes. Ingredients: 5.6 lbs DME Pilsen light 1 lb Crystal II L65 specialty grains 0.5 Galena @ 60 min 0.5 Cascade @...