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Well, I'm pretty sure I finally figured this one out - it was the airlock / airborne bugs (as a couple of people suggested). I discovered that my airlock has an indentation up one side of the bit that plugs into the grommet, which I'm pretty sure would have been letting air through. The...

Thanks, that's interesting. I guess I'll be super-careful about sterilization next time. Got any specific tips for avoiding airborne bugs? Is it strange that my beer suddenly went bad after about 3 weeks in the bottle? Or is that how it usually goes? Nope, no fruitflies anywhere.

I've got a slightly strange problem on my hands here. With two different brews I've made (my first two ever), with mostly very different ingredients, my beer has suddenly started tasting like vinegar only a day or so after maturing in the bottle. A bottle of my most recent brew tasted...

I'm deciding between buying a bunch of PET plastic beer bottles from my brewstore, or reusing soft-drink bottles. Is there any actual difference between the two, besides the fact that some soda bottles aren't brown (which I gather means I need to leave them in the dark while brewing). Are...

Hey, thanks for the helpful responses! I think I'll just use the PET plastic bottles sold at my local brewstore. Actually, would glass gingerbeer bottles with screw-on caps work?

I'm about to brew my first batch of beer, and was wondering whether bottling in screwtop wine bottles would work? Would the pressure of carbonation be too much for the glass? Or would the pressure break the seal of the cap? Thanks heaps for looking :)