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I'm thinking about using some PET 20oz. root beer bottles to bottle my first cider. The bottles are brown and light weight, which is important since I plan to ship some full ones across the country to a family member (if the batch turns out). The problem I'm having is getting the root beer smell...

I've had an IPA in bottles for four and a half weeks now (in a closet at room temperature; 70s in CA). I noticed tonight that there is a ring of "stuff" floating around the shoulder of several of the bottles. When I tilt a bottle, the stuff disperses. It looks very fine-grained, looks like smoke...

So I'm brewing my third batch of beer today, an Amber Ale. I got to the boil and everything was going fine. I had three hops to add at 60, 10, and 1 minutes to go in the boil. So after the first add, I sat down and read for a while. At 30 minutes, I got up and added the flavoring hops. And when...