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My airlock started bubbling around 10:30 this morning, not very often but its bubbling.

I pitched at about 68 I took the yeast out of fridge about 3 hours before a pitched.

I just brewed my second batch of beer last night. I made a wheat beer and got it in my fermenting bucket around 9:30. I used white labs california 5 ale yeast and it isn't showing any signs of fermenting it is at about 65 degrees in my basement. Did I do something wrong my blonde ale started...

Yeah I had read to try it weekly to check carbonation and so I could see the difference in tasted. I bottled on the 7th and was planning on waiting till superbowl weekend to open one.

It was a dry yeast that came in my kit. It fermented at 67° under my stairs in the basement

I made a american blonde ale, it fermented in my bucket for 13 days. I bottled it on the 7th, my instructions on my kit said to try it weekly to check carbonation and see the difference in taste as it ages.

I bottled my beer last saturday and tried one today, it still doesn't seem carbonated enough and tastes like yeast. Will that go away or did I mess up?

Well I think I will quit trying to do it cheap, now that I think about it a 6.5 glass carboy will be the best route and better in the long run. If I spend a little more money now, it will save me more in the long run thanks for the advice.

So could I put a 5 gal batch in the 5 gal carboy or do I need more room cause the kraussen?

Can you use a culligan water jug for a carboy?

There is some sediment in the bottom of my bottles, is that normal? I just bottled my blonde ale on saturday.

Well I want to do another blonde ale but my next batch will be a rasberry wheat and than a mexican cervesa

Im looking to do a rasberry wheat and a mexican cerveza next couple batches, and haven't drank very many different types of beer really don't know the difference between a lager, pale ale, stout etc.

So it seems the overall consensus is that adding sugar isn't the best route to raise abv. I was just curious cause im from utah and our beer here is only 3.2% and does not taste as good as other out of state beer. which is what got me into wanting to brew my own, I wanted to be able to make it...

I was gonna try a rasberry wheat next.

I do not have brewing software just got my kit on christmas and bottled my first batch yesterday. I was just curious cause I was hoping to get a abv of about 6% my next batch. I was told to use corn sugar, but I may need to pitch more yeast also. Is this true?

Any idea of how I would figure amount to add?

So I just need to boil it for 15 min just like priming sugar? Do I need to add more yeast? And do I need to let it cool before adding?

Can you add sugar after boil to raise acohol percentage, or during fermentation?

So did I mess up by opening the bucket and letting air in?