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Thanks everyone, great advice from all. When I siphoned it from the fermenter into the bottles, I was very careful, except some of the crud on the bottom of the carboy made its way into the siphon somehow and into the bottles. The beer itself is exceptionally clear...until I disturb it...

Hello gents, I brewed my first AG Belgian Blonde about 5 weeks ago, and just did a single fermentation. I just opened the first bottle to test the SG, and even for being young, its turned out AMAZING. My question though - it seems to have a lot of sediment roaming around in the bottle...

Again, thanks for the replies everyone. Just for clarification again though, I NEVER planned on mixing both oxyclean and bleach. Lol, I'm not sure why the discussion went that direction... I've got plenty of chemistry classes under my belt from fairly recent school, so I know better than to...

Thanks for the replies everyone. I wasn't planning on mixing the two... Just curious as to any affect if any after rinsing the oxy out, bleach to sanitize containdications and what not... Thanks

I just cleaned a couple 5 gal carboys with oxyclean to get all of that sticky crap left over from the blowoff, and I used about 4 scoops of oxyclean in each to do this. Then I read the ingestion warning on the back... Did I use too much and potentially make these carboys unsafe to use? Or will...

If I put the blowoff tube into the carboy, I will NEVER get it back out... but I good idea with the siphoning... Looks like I just need a couple special brushes. Thanks guys!

... when you have no clue how to clean out your blow off tubes and empty class carboys after they've been used. :confused: I'm clueless. Help!

Just went into my LHBS... they told me it was too late to try adding any more ME because after 8 days the yeast has already done most of its work... damn. They said to expect a fine tasting beer, just very low ABV. Fine by me. Just didnt want to have to trash the whole 5 gallons. But I...

So should I just boil up some pure dry dark malt extract (that has no hops added) to add to my batch, rather than buy another pre-hopped LME?

There is about an inch of stuff on the bottom so far... I want to swirl that around after I drain and re-add? Do I need to get a can of the exact same stuff I used initially to re-add? (It was Coopers Stout) Or can I get funky and use a can of their Ale or Porter...? Or would that just be...

:rolleyes: :D So the consensus here is to get another can of that stuff, boil it in a gallon of water and replace some of the already fermenting carboy? Any need to add more yeast...? The thing only came with one small 7gram package of yeast to begin with. I am in Boise, Idaho. Luckily...

Thats great news, thanks. So in the future though... Im going to want to use sugar with one of those cans?

I could do that? Even though its been fermenting for a week now?

It was only 2.75 lbs of LME for a 5 gallon batch, sans sugar. So I just made a "light" beer then? :) Next time I should add sugar? Damn it I just need a FULL recipe with ingredients AND measurments for everything... I seem to have had a hard time finding something like that either was...

Yes, I topped it off at 5 gallons exactly, I used cool water to help cool the wort. Thats a good point about not having to sanatize the pot... just a by-product of when I used it and my bottling fermentor to sanatize my other stuff. BTW I'm using 1TBSPN of bleach per gallon of water to...

Thanks for the welcome guys... I appreciate the help. The extract was in the kit (can) was 2.75 lbs. How much lower ABV are we talkin here? Oh and of course like any good n00b worth his weight in crap, I forgot to take an OG reading. Whoops. (I think from now on I'm not going to use...

All right total n00b here, looking for help... I think I may have ruined my first batch from an error of omission; I think I may have left out a key ingredient when making my wort. Please tell me if everything below looks okay: 1) boiled my water (3 gallons) in a 5 gallon sanatized pot 2)...