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For primary fermentation I bought a Munton's Continental Lager kit and Fermentis w34/70 lager yeast. First I cleaned and sanitized my equipment then as instructed in Munton's sheet I boiled 3,5 lt of water and poured the kit and water into the bucket. Then put 1kg DME into the bucket and mixed...

Hello everyone, A few weeks a go I have batched my first beer kit, a lager one. Until bottling everything was fine. When I was bottling my beer, it looked really over carbonated actually. I had real difficulty filling the bottles because of carbonation and I feared if I had built an arsenal...

I put each bottle individually but next time I'll use a bottling bucket. About sugar , I wanted to make it %100 malt but I see that putting brewing sugar makes no difference in means of taste. Besides it is much easier to deal with

Guys thank you very much for the responses. Actually I already used bottling wand but the problem is my beer was already carbonated. I suspected infection but it tastes pretty good. Perhaps the temp of beer during bottling(12degrees celcius) was reason for that carbonation. It contained co2...

Hi, in the forum I read that under filled bottles are more prone to over carbonation. I would like to show two of my bottles. They have some significant space over the beer so I wonder if those two bottles are too under filled or not. The bottles are quite dark so I marked the top line...

I understood thank you very much for the replies. I had my first batch bottles lately. So I have some concerns If I built an arsenal or not :) following weeks will show me :)

Hi, I wonder something about potential arsenals we have in our homes :) if bottles don't explode during corbonation at room temperature, can we assume that they won't explode anymore after being refregirated? Because when temperature is dropped, the carbonation speed drops as well. Moreover...

Thanks woosha for your recommendadtions. I actually used a bottling wand but still I got those bubbles. And I'll definitely consider using sugar over DME. It's quite difficult to deal with DME especially when bottle priming. I hope to have some pictures of my beer in the following weeks. But...

Thanks uniondr for the explanation. It made feel more reliefed. According to calculator I need to put 144 gr. of DME for my batch. Now I realized that I made a mistake with my calculations and as far as I remember total amount I put in the bottles makes a sum of 160 gr. roughly. This 16 gr...

I also ckecked SG before bottling. It dropped from 1042 to 1012. So I thought fermentation is over. But during primary fermentation only for the first week I saw bubbles coming out of airlock. For the rest 3 weeks it just stayed still. Perhaps co2 inside the bucket carbonated because it couldn't...

Today I have bottled my first batch as title mentions. Woosha i have seen your message too late, after bottling, so didn't put DME in the primary bucket. I put on each bottle seperately and calculated amount according to calculator in the link shared above. However I have observed something...

Thanks to everyone for sparing time for my questions. Your comments are really appreciated. I think I have to use bottle priming in my case. Thanks Slym2none for your recommendations. Another thing is, I have read some posts about post bottling procedures...

Well I have a similar bucket which I'm using for primary fermentation. But don't have any spare one to use for bottling. I'm living in Turkey, well I see that in UK or USA you have plenty of resources there for brewing but we have quiet limited resources here. But it's still better than nothing...

if the only issue for using DME is the higher costs then I'm okay with that. Because this is my first batch I want to make a good one as a start but wil think about costs later on :) By the way thanks for the calculator. It really looks like a good one :mug:

Well I have only one bucket. So I was considering to put priming DME in my primary fermentation bucket then bottle from there. Do I have to put it in another bucket or is it okay this way? By the way, I haven't used or bought brewing sugar. Does it make a significant difference to use brewing...