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We transfered our beer from primary to secondary container. This is our first time. As the brewmistress, I am in charge of research. Our questions now are..1) it was slow siphoning from primary to carboy. Any tricks? 2) What is the best way to avoid sludge? We did let it rest for several hours...

We put our wort in the fermentor on Sunday. By Monday morning the aerorator was hopping up and down. It has slowed since then. Is something wrong?

Our directions say to cool wort from boiling to 80° in 15-20 min. It took us 40 min. Dont have the nifty cooling tool yet. Will it cause a provlem because it took us so long?

When we were doing the final step of our first batch of beer, some of the yeast exploded out of the tube. It said to shake it. It was like when you open a soda and some fizzes out. I am concerned that we lost to much yeast to make a good batch. This ever happen to anyone?

I heard aluminum was bad because of the metal it was made with.

Yes.

Do I have to use stainless to boil in or can I use stoneware?

Do we have to use stainless steel pot to boil in or can we use a stone ware pot?