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Okay, I brewed a batch and while it tastes great it is flat. I've replayed everything, the amount of priming sugar, amount and conditioning time are the exact same as previous batches and those were fine. I did begin to use a new sanitizer on bottling day 5 Star SANICLEAN. I retread the...

Awesome. Fj605, how hot was it? Did you use a particular pepper?

Has anyone brewed a batch with any peppers? If so how did you do it? When did you put the peppers in, Boil? Fermentation? How much did you use? Did you have to do anything to the peppers before you introduced them? Thanks, Matt

I brewed my first batch a few months back, a Pale Ale. I thought it came out pretty good for my first time. Out of the 48 beers I bottled 3 were gushers. Not sure what happened but as soon as I opened the bottle they overflowed the bottle, badly. The first homebrew I gave to my father-in-law...

Okay, sounds good, the headspace in the bottling bucket makes sense. Have you had any luck with dry hopping in a primary? I do have dry hop bags.......:mug:

Is it okay to secondary in a plastic bucket and then rack that over to the bottling bucket? Or is it more beneficial to rack it over to another glass carboy as a secondary?

Couple of questions about secondaries. I wanted to dry hop this batch of IPA, directions directed to dry hop in a secondary, but someone mentioned dry hopping in the primary. I 1. Is there a difference if you dry hop in the primary or secondary? 2. Also if I decide to dry hop in my...

Couple of questions about secondaries. I wanted to dry hop this batch of IPA, directions directed to dry hop in a secondary, but someone mentioned dry hopping in the primary. I 1. Is there a difference if you dry hop in the primary or secondary? 2. Also if I decide to dry hop in my bottling...

What is adjuncts?

Thanks for the advice. I'm one of those new brewers who notices everything and since it is a new process I tend to think "what did I do wrong", lol. Thanks again. I will be patient and let the yeast do its work.

Day four of fermentation. Days two and three showed a really good rate, bubbles in the airlock almost every second. Checked the brew today after work and a dramatic slowing of fermentation, one bubble every 10 seconds. Why such a dramatic reduction in fermentation?

My fermentation just started, a little less than 24 hours since the pitch. Is it okay to shake up/aerate the carboy after the fermentation has begun?

SO simple but exactally what I need! got the scrap wood in the garage to make this next weekend! Thanks for the idea! Matt

My wife also got me a brew kit for my birthday, not sure she realizes what she started! :mug:

buzzerj, thank you for the detailed response. I really appreciate the advice. I think I may have taken a poor hydo reading in the beginning, and coupled with the large amount of water I had to add to bring it up to five gallons may have thrown off my reading, being that I may not have mixed...