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Thanks for the help. Somehow I got it into my head the temp for the yeast was 70-77 degrees. When I finally figured it out I was pretty upset. Anyway, I'll thow it into the secondary tonight and put it back in the basement where things stay a pretty constant 65. Thanks again for the help though.

Well, the first batch is in the fermenter, and nothing is doing. I cooked on Friday and sometime my temp dropped to about 67 and all activity stopped. I tossed a small heater in the room and the temp got back up to 73 and activity started back up again. Before bed, the bubbles were coming...

all sounds good. With regards to bottling, do I toss the sugar into each bottle, or into the bottling bucket? If it goes into each bottle, how would I go about determining how much sugar to put into a gallon jug? I have some growlers laying around the house from a local brewpub.

Just looking for a few opinions before I do my first brew this weekend. I put together my own kit from a few different places online and ended up with a 6 gallon bucket for primary and 5 gallon bucket for secondary fermentation. I didn't get an airlock because I liked the idea of a tube into a...