Recent content by Reece Witherspoon III

For priming sugar it was 4.5 oz of dextrose boiled into 2 cups of water added to the bottling bucket before the beer was added (for a 5 gallon brew). As for the capper it was the wing capper and there were a few I did twice because it didn't seem to sit properly at first. Let me know if you guys...

Thanks for the reply. The don't turn at all but some of them don't look great. If this is the issue would they have carbonated at all over the first week? And it just seems odd that all 40 bottles would be poorly capped. But it is the first time I tried it so you might be right.

Hi guys, I tried making a batch of beer for the first time using a recipe I got at a local brewing store. My issue is I recently bottled my beer about 2.5 weeks ago and after 1 week I could see some carbonation or bubbling in the neck of some of the bottles so I tried one and it had a decent...