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I'm pretty sure it was done fermenting.....I would maybe heard it bubble in the airlock like...well, i'm not sure, but rarely at all.

Aight. Also, one last thing. As I am transfering my beer into the bottling bucket... it has a really sweet smell. Is this normal?

Thanks! And yeah, that'd be great! Also, when putting the sugar in the beer to carbonate it...somebody told us to disolve it in warm water. I am just curious...if you know....how much water to disolve it in.

Yeah my bad...that's what i meant. After the fermentation and whatnot.....like the carbonization. So you don't refrigerate the bottles in this process? Thanks.

When I'm fermenting in the bottles....I refrigerate it...right?

My fermentation is slowing down. I put put it in my carboy on Saturday around 3pm, and it started to ferment on late Saturday/early Monday. It's thursday now and it's starting to slow down quite a bit. Airlock is bubbling once every 30 seconds or so. Is this normal?

I am 17. I'm startin' young! Go brewing!

Haha, yeah, I feel really stupid now. It's definately the yeast. It's doing it's thing. Yay. I'm excited now.

This yellowish stuff (what the yeast looked like when I put it in) forming on the top of the wort. I'm pretty sure it's the yeast. That means it's dead...right? The yeast I used was like 2 month old liquid yeast...so it's basically gaurenteed dead. I'm just making sure this is no...

Yeah...I figured that might pose a problem. Can I just go out and buy new yeast?

Ok awesome...I just realized it and ran downstairs and got a bunch of vodka and put it in. Hopefully it will be ok. I also forgot to refridgerate the yeast....and i've had it for about three months....is this bad?

I just made my first batch of beer today, and after about 7 hours of it being in my closet with the airlock on, I realized I had forgotten to put sanitized water in it.... Is this...bad? I know it was potentially open to bacteria...but will 7 hours matter much when it's such a small...