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That looks the same as the one I'm using, though I imagine there isn't a ton of variation between bottle fillers.

Roger that. I'll try taking it apart, cleaning it, and using it with water before buying a new one. It's possible that my initial thought that it just got clogged with hops might be the cause. I have Nottingham and BRY-97 in my fridge. I see US-05 and BRY-97 as very similar, but I see...

Everyone says that, but I've found that the carbonation generally finishes within 3-5 days. That said, it does depend on how much yeast is in suspension when you bottle and what the temperature is. Since it's been in the high 90s Fahrenheit outdoors lately, I have the bottles at the coolest...

I did this with a separate fermenter filled with 14 liters of StarSan solution and it didn't leak at all. Normally I leave 2 liters in the fermenter every time I bottle or keg, so I'm definitely not "greedy." I think this time bottling from the fermenter with a dry hopped APA fermented with...

Yikes, that sounds awful. I've had my share of bad bottling experiences and yesterday was probably the most annoying (albeit not the worst period). Yours sounds a lot more unpleasant, really. When I was Googling about leaking bottle fillers, I did see some people where the filler would just jam...

I took another gravity reading and it was the exact same as the previous one from 3 days earlier, so I bottled this yesterday, and I can definitely see why I've never bottled from the fermenter before now. On the very first bottle, the bottle filler just stopped after maybe 100ml. I'm guessing...

1918.5 + 3 gallons of West Coast Pilsner/New Zealand Pilsner hybrid (Motueka, Nectaron, Galaxy, Mosaic) = 1921.5

That's a pretty nice system. I mainly kept my beers in the boxes they arrived in and would stick a Post-It on the front of the box that said the name I gave it, the style, ABV, IBUs, brewed date, and bottled date. Then when I would take a bottle out of a box where it would be with others, I...

I bottled exclusively from 2014 to 2019, but then I stopped brewing, and when I got back into brewing, I didn't do any bottling, instead only kegging. I only starting bottling again (alongside kegging) earlier this year. But even when I had 4-5 batches of bottled beer in my house, I generally...

Yeah, I bought a white gel pen yesterday since there weren't any white Sharpies. To test it out, I wrote "Sour IPA" on two bottles of sour IPA in my fridge and "Saison" on a bottle of saison in the fridge. Works nicely. I'm thinking of just writing "APA" for all of them with the variation...

I don't. I only have black caps.

As Bobby said, it's up to you, but I would take the 45 IBUs down to 25-30 IBUs, maybe the ABV down to 4.5% to 5.5%, and remove the dextrose entirely (considering hazy beers tend to have pretty robust bodies, I'm guessing it's only in your recipe to boost the alcohol).

Yeah, that was the idea I was thinking of doing, but it seemed both like too much work and the condensation issue is definitely there. Your cap idea completely solves that. Super easy to do and super fast too.

That's actually a great point! And the absolutely stupid thing is that I've done that before, though I think the last time I did that was years ago. That said, I'll need to get a white Sharpie since I use black caps (in the past, when I used a Sharpie, it was a black Sharpie, but it was on...

The biggest problem would be keeping track of them (probably paper-style tape on the bottles with abbreviations written on them). In all seriousness, though, I'd probably only do 2 groups: carbonation tablets and caster sugar. While I do think tropical-flavored glucose tablets would definitely...

8 bottles: carbonation tablets 8 bottles: caster sugar 4 bottles: brown sugar 2 bottles: maple syrup 1 bottle: tropical-flavored glucose tablets

I took a gravity sample. 1.010. I mashed at 153F (67.2C), so I think this very well will be the final gravity, but I'm gonna wait at least another 3 days before bottling. I ended up buying some carb tablets for the first time. So I basically have narrowed it down to 2 options: dosing each bottle...

The US gallon is what the UK gallon used to be. The UK changed their gallon in the early 1800s, then adjusted other liquid measurements (pints, quarts, etc.) in accordance with that change. The UK was a logical change, considering the US gallon is 8.34 pounds of water, while the UK gallon is 10...

It's also one of the reasons why I've never tried less than a 60 minute boil before (though I intend to try one within the next few months). I've actually made some sours before where I did a full 60 minute boil but didn't add the hops until 20 or 30 minutes so the IBUs would be appropriately...

This beer will most likely be somewhere between 4.4% and 5.0% ABV depending on the final gravity (I'm guessing around 4.7%). I don't have the carb tablets I'd need to bottle with them, so I'd need to purchase them first if I were to use them. I was originally leaning towards just boiling some...