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not that Im not capable of missing anything, but I dont remember any mention of any tubes/wands/etc. Nor did the kit I got some with any of that. I'll look again of course.

How To Brew - Palmer The good news, hopefully, is we took it very slow. Had the bottles cocked to the side so it ran down the inside of the bottle. Just a few bubbles at the top on some of them. It was a gentle process. Tube and wand. Add to cart... It seems the RIGHT BOOK is right...

good to know. Here's another example of why did I waste money on this particular book... Fill to 3/4" it says... Bottling bucket with spigot it says... No mention of anything else. Ahhh well. Can't do anything about it now. Though I gotta say its frustrating.

sounds like its all just comfort and preference. Get the beer in the bottle however you like. No? A friend and I bottled our first batch last night. One of us with a bottle in one hand and the other on the spigot. Going slow to not aerate and foam up the beer, the other capping. Yeah...

that looks similar to the Theif. Only in reverse. :)

Question: What are you guys' preference when it comes time to bottle? Right from the spigot into the bottles? Or something else? And if something else, what? And why?

for my 2nd batch I used the strainer. Poured the cooled worth back and forth a few times between the boiling kettle and the fermenting bucket. Emptying the strainer of whatever it caught each time.

awesome. Thanks!!!!!

yeah, there was definitely something going on in there. Its very uneven and "mountainous" looking in spots.... \m/ \m/

ohhhhh great idea borden! Be right back....

Until the 48hr mark. Nothing going on. Should I just leave it? Or open it up and look? And if I look, what am I looking for?

I was going to let it go 2 weeks in primary, then 2 weeks in secondary. (28 days) I had a discussion with Revvy and he suggested (and I went with it) to skip secondary and just do all primary. So I figured 4 weeks in primary then bottle. Can it go TOO long in primary?

\m/ whooo hoo!!!!!!!

I have my first batch, an irish red ale, in the fermenter. Its been in there for 7 days. I checked it the day after boiling and the airlock was bubbling along nicely. Since then I have looked in the closet at the bucket (havent opened it, no reason to) about every 2 days. Just to see that it...

gotcha. You just make sure they dont get in the bottles?

right now I dont even know what dry hopping is... I am (and will be for a while) in the land of extract kits with no frills. Just good generic home brewing. I will want to be more experimental and try some advanced things later. Hopefully (and it sounds like it) I can use the extra...

that sounds like something I'll be looking at down the road. Like Revvy said, I'll likely use the carboys later. When I graduate to more "advanced" things....

the key here is I'm not going to do a secondary. And based on cost it I can get 3 fermenting buckets for the price of 1 carboy...

again, I figured that. but I had the sanitizer made up already for other stuff. If something is gonna be sitting out in my garage waiting to be dunked in wort it may as well be sitting in sanitizer.

I figured that. but I had the sanitizer made up already for other stuff. If something is gonna be sitting out inmy garage waiting to be dunked in wort it may as well be sitting in sanitizer. :)