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Room temperature. 60-70 degrees, depending on if I'm home with the heater on or not. I remember having a good amount of alcohol to drink while bottling, so it's possible I messed up the sugar measurement or something. I'm almost certain I added it though. Anyone have any idea why this...

Unfortunately it doesn't have any head at all. Doesn't it need to be a little bit carbonated for head to appear when pouring? It looks a lot like flat soda.

gah, I posted in the wrong forum. Can a mod kindly move this thread for me? Thanks :)

So I bottled my stout almost a month ago. I crack one open today hoping to get a taste, and I hear a very faint *psst*. I pour it into a glass, and it looks like COFFEE. No head or carbonation at all. :mad: When I was racking both times, I was very careful not to disturb the sediment...

I've seen here that a lot of people use the whirlpool method to separate trub from the wort. Is this method preferable to just pouring the cooled wort through a strainer+funnel into the primary fermenter? I figured that maybe pouring through the filter caused lots of splashing, which could...