The fermenter that I'm using has the same kind of screw on lid that you have. Its leaking past the rubber o-ring in the cap. take saran wrap fold it in half and wrap it several time tightly around where the cap meets the fermenter and your air lock will start bubbling.
I used the 3/4 cup of priming sugar that came in the kit. I boiled 2 cups of water added the sugar and dissolved it. let it cool a bit then put it into the bottling bucket with about 1/4 gal of the beer then siphoned the rest of the beer on top of it. I opened one of the beers tonight with no...
Ok I made a 5 gallon batch from a extract kit. an amber red ale from a lbs. og was suppose to be 1.051 I got 1.053, fermentation went normally and after 14 days appeared to have stopped. I moved it to a secondary and took a reading 1.020, it should have been 1.012. I had no other activity in the...