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Honestly, this is my first gig, so I don't know. I've already bottled it by now and put in the priming sugar solution. It was probably, as I hear, "yeast rafts" or whatever. It was definitely done fermenting. It sat in the fermentation bucket for six weeks. The airlock nozzle was level, BTW, as...

Hey guys, I cracked open my firmentation bucket and am transferring the beer to the bottling bucket, but there is an awful lot of floating, suspended sediment in the beer. Using a pre-made american wheat kit from pelletized hops and liquid extract. Is this normal? I'd rather not gross-out...

Ah, yes. Thank you for your corrections.

Hey all, I'm used to making wine, so on my first batch of beer, I am a little confused about how I should proceed after this: I left the fermenting beer in the keg much longer than suggested by my beginner's guide. It's been about a month. From what I understand, the beer will age after...

So it should still be good to go?

To my knowledge. There wasn't much to work with - just extract and hops pellets. I may have used too much water - or not done a good job scooping out extract that is clinging to the inside of the jars.

Another thing - I checked the gravity and it was at about 1.035, while the kit said starting gravity should be 1.049-1.051 ...is this bad? And what could have caused this?

Hey guys. My first attempt at making beer, I decided to go with an American Wheat using cans of extract, in a pre-made kit I'm boiling my wort, but I don't have much foam at all, so I'm not sure what will indicate the "break". Any ideas? Also, can you damage your wort by boiling too long...