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The disadvantage is you remove the yeast and bring fermentation to a stop so bottle carbonating theoretically would take a few days to get rolling again and would take longer because you have less yeast in the bottles.

i found that using too much dark extract can lead to a pretty heavy body but if this is your goal that's cool too

if you only overcarbonated by 20% the odds you made bottle bombs are very low. If they fail I would expect explosion, not popping open. Beer bottles can handle many times more pressure than typical carbonation, what is way more likely than bottle bombs is you pop one open and it all squirts...

My guess is it will be fine.

It gets a lot easier once you realize there are only about 5 steps you have to get right, especially if you do extracts. 1. Boil malt and water and hops 2. Add yeast after it cools to 100F. 3. After it ferments for a week or two make sure hydrometer reading is stable for 3 days. 4. Add...

Don't worry too much. Different beer styles use different amounts of sugar. You probably will not have an explosion problem unless fermentation was incomplete. If your gravity was stable for 3 days you probably are fine. secondary fermentation is to help improve clarity and conditioning like...

I had one like this that ended super high. In my case it was definitely unfermentables. Used way too much dark malt. It was about 3.5% alcohol and caused lots of gas. You might hit it with lalvin ec-1118 for 99 cents and if it's just a stuck fermentation you might be able to get it to...

At 100 degrees Farenheit your gravity will consistently be about 5 points lower than if you measure it at 60 F. E.g. 1.05 at 100F = 1.055 at 60F.

I got an alcohol content of 10-11.25 % based on those gravities from a homebrew calculator. The rule of thumb I remember is Old English 800 HG is named that because it starts at 1.080 Gravity and ends up pretty damn strong (8% abv). Not that I am a fan of that product. My experience with...

I used to do a secondary the first couple times- then tried without and got good results. The benefit of bottle conditioning right after primary is those bottles are airtight so if your equipment is not in A+ condition you avoid that concern of oxygen leaking over weeks when you don't have...

You pretty obviously have a leak in the seal on the lid of your bucket. This is not a big deal as long as it is fermenting actively and changing the airlock level but you want to get it out to a secondary vessel or bottle it once the gravity stabilizes for a few days or week because oxygen can...

Yes add some light malt extract if you have it (liquid is easier to work with) until gravity is 1.050 or so (about 11-12 brix or whatever you want to get to). If you boil it let it cool to 100F or 35C before adding or you will kill the yeast. With 28 liters need a lot more sugars to achieve...

with a small beer the whole point is to have just barely enough alcohol to act as a preservative (2-3%). If you go lower you probably will get something that is not really shelf stable and might have to look into pasteurizing stovetop after carbonation is complete. If you keg you might have to...

gravity is down to 1.018

down to 1.042

you can use aluminum foil. as long as fermentation continues you will have positive pressure pushing outside air away. As it ends the CO2 will escape for a day or so. The problem with this is once active fermentation ends you have to bottle immediately or the air can get in and oxidize it.

this will work just fine. one thing to beware of though is if they are overfull you can have them overflow through the airlock due to lack of headspace so you might want to have 5 gallons plus some sugar spread into 6 1 gallon containers or so instead of trying to cram it all back in to 5.

The good thing about 5 gallons is that it is a pretty big amount of fluid and will take a long time too cool down as you know if you've ever left a bucket outside on a barely freezing night and noticed it didn't freeze at all but there was frost on your car. If your garage hits 35-65 there is a...

The problem is that we know that PET is relatively impermeable because it is used for bottled carbonated beverages with a pull date 6 or 12 months in the future but we know an airlock is pretty permeable as CO2 and oxygen can migrate through water. So an experiment designed using an airlock on...

My guess is the label is just not accurate and your gallon is just out of spec but if you bought 10 gallons from 10 different lots and checked them all and averaged them it would be within a few percent of what the label says.