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I just got a bench capper and tried to use it yesterday. The thing will not crimp the caps. I used as much pressure as I dared but using more might break the bottle. It has a round capper head as opposed to bell shaped one and I'm wondering if that may be the problem. I had to use my wing type...

I'll try that on what I am going to bottle today. t sure would make it a lot easier. Thanks.

I live in central calif.and it gets pretty hot here as well. I to carb/condition in a water bath to keep temp down and it works well. Keeping it between 68 and 72 deg works for me.

I use tsp, on tablespoon per gallon, and it works very well on labels. Leave them soaking for two days seems to work pretty well and it's not that expensive.

I use a a regular cooler large enough to fit the fermentation bucket in, put in some frozen bottles twice a day and keep the temp between 65 and 67 degrees on a constant basis. I live in Central California which gets pretty hot like the Phoenix area and it has worked fine even when the temp gets...

welcome from down here in central Ca. This is a great place to get help when you run into what u think are problems. Only been at this for a little while but I have my 3rd batch fermenting and 2nd carbing. What I've leaned are really two things, sanitation and patience. Again, welcome aboard

Thanks a lot for the help. Being new at this I'm a bit of a worry wort, pun intended, about everything I'm doing. I'll wait and then enjoy. Thanks.

Like most noobies I got impatient with no fermentation after 24 hours so I popped the lid to check and got a whiff of co2 so I resealed the lid and waited. When I resealed I guess the air from inside blew off the bobber, for lack of a better word, off of the airlock. I saw it this morning, about...

you can just add ice cubes to the wort in the fermentor as well. 8 lbs equals about a gallon of h20. I do this when the wort has cooled to below 100 degrees.

I bottled my last batch using these suggestions and it was so much easier than my first two attempts. Works remarkably well

hi from Hanford, Ca. Down the rod from you. Bit. I'm a noob too, have my third batch fermenting, second carbonating and first one mostly consumed. It turned out surprisingly well, a pale ale.

I had the same thing happen with the batch that's carbonating now. OG was 1.044, FG 1.018. It read the same for five days so I just bottle. It'll be interesting to see how it comes out. It is a Midwest kit, Blackdog Ale.

Hi, I've just begun the homebrew revolution. After almost 30 years making soft drinks, retirement led to explore homebrewing. The two use the same process, sanitation, batching, sanitation and bottling. My first batch came out suprisingly well, the second i'm not so sure of since my FG...

I use tsp and chlorine (1tbs per gallon of water) and let it soak for a couple of days and the labels slide right of as well as most of the glue. Of course I,m a real newbie so I,m sure there are better ways. This also cleans out gunk from old bottles nicely.

Iw shouts finished bottling my first batch. While xfereing to the bottling bucket the hose came out of the spigot and splashed a bunch into the bucket. bottled anyway but I'm sure it,s ruined. Learned a lesson, pay attention to what,s happening. I tried finishing up my prep while xfereing and...