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I see the confusion. I siphoned from the secondary to the bottling bucket that I had already poured the priming sugar mixture into. I then siphoned from the bottling bucket to the kegs and all of the bottles. I shouldn't have said "secondary" when I said I was bottling. Sorry for the...

No, I didn't stir in priming sugar. I put it in the bottling bucked before I siphoned from the secondary thinking the flow from the siphon hose would be enough to stir things up. Should it be stirred? Yes, the bottle cap do appear to be sealing. There is a sight pressure release when...

The basic facts: I brewed an "Octoberfest" extract beer kit in Novemver. It stopped fermenting after 3 days. I moved the primary to a warmer location adn stirred things up. Fermentation restarted but very slowly. It took almost 5 weeks in the primary to ferment. Siphoned to the...