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My Northern Brewer 5 gallon carboy crapped out on me on its 4th or 5th batch. I racked my Irish Red to my bottling bucket and set the glass carboy aside so that I could start bottling. About half an hour later I hear an incredibly loud CRACK noise, but could not figure out what made the noise...

Hello all, Today I bottled my first batch of homebrew beer, a five-gallon American Wheat Beer extract kit that I received from Northern Brewer. The entire process seemed to go well for me, but after bottling I realized I had nowhere near 5 gallons of beer and probably used too much sugar. I...