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My primary IS my bottling bucket :P Now what? =/

I've bottled onto plastic bottles before, they came with my Coopers DIY beer kit. I'd rather not buy carb tablets. Any way of doing this with regular sugar? Can I just calculate how much sugar I need, mix it straigt into the primary and just bottle?

Hi, I'm only in this area until xmas, but have a batch ready to bottle NOW. I have the following equipment available: 1. ONE primary fermenter 2. Enough 1.5L soda bottles to contain the brew 3. A fellow brewer has agreed to loan me 2 cornelius kegs. Advantage cornelius kegs: 1. No...

Beer tasted fine before bottling, but now.. I bottled on the 27th of July, and used coopers carbonation drops. The room where the bottles are stored is around 21C at all times. After about a week after bottling, I tried a beer, and it's wayyyy sweet and almost no carbonation. There were no...

Thank you so much for all your advice! some additional questions. 1. What's BK? 2. Hop sack is just a nylon bag, right? 3. Can I pour the hop tea straight into the FV, and stir (like the recipe calls for)? thanks!

Ok, so I'm redoing this. (my first batch had to wait a bit longer anyway) new plan: both boxes, leaving a bit out, with 7 gallons of water. I think my coopers fermentor can handle it =) (from their DIY) BUT, how do I put the hops in if I can't boil?

Hi! Trying to do this: Beer (5 gallons) 2.2 -3.1kg of hopped pale malt extract syrup. (OG of 1.038 - 1.053) 30 grams hops 2 packets of dry ale yeast and bought myself two Muntons Connoisseurs, Pilsner sets. 3.6kg in total. I compensate for the increase in malt extract by brewing 6...

About to begin second brew. I went for Muntons pilsener. which was on sale at an online site. However, it's expiry date is may 2011. They DID ship me completely fresh yeast, which I did not pay for, and I also ordered some extra hops (cascade). Will this be any good? Maybe if I steep some...

Thanks guys. Seems to be going along fine. Got some additional tips from "how to brew" on my next brew! =)

Hey! Just bought myself a coopers home brew set, and followed the directions, but did a few mistakes 1. I accidently left the tap open to the fermenter... Ooops :ban: so some of the sugar/brewkit ran out.. not sure how much ran out, but ended up with OG at 1034. Not a disaster? This is...