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To all, thanks for the help, I spent some time this afternoon re-calibrating my stuff, and found out a few things. I do fill bottles to pretty much exactly 12 oz, so that isn't an issue. My carboy 5 gallon mark (that I made) was very low, almost a quarter to half gallon off. So that explains A...

RM MN, I didn't think it was the buckets that brought contamination, I thought it was using any 2 different fermenters and transferring the beer that brought a risk of contamination. I guess the consensus is that if I plan on using one fermenting stage that I should use a big bucket so the...

bu_gee I'm not sure, I assumed filling them as high as i could with the bottling wand and removing it would be 12 oz. I will check with an extra bottle and a measuring cup. Thanks!

So a 6 gallon carboy would be a good investment for me, I guess. Thanks for the help. I don't know much about cold crashing, but I will learn before next time!

Hello, I am relatively new to brewing, I bottled my second ever batch today. With both batches, I ended up getting about 3.8 gallons of bottled beer. That is way lower than the 5 gallons that go into my carboy. I have a theory, but don't know for sure what I can do better to prevent this...

Hunter_la5, would you agree with JMSetzler, or would you think I can bottle this weekend?

I bought a brewers best "German Octoberfest" kit. The directions say to primary ferment for 2 weeks in a bucket fermenter, and then lager in a carboy for 3 to 4 more weeks. However, the instructions say that you can ferment as an ale with the included yeast. I was also told not to do two...

I went to brew my first batch of extract beer, and just picked a flavor i thought that was seasonal and my girlfriend would enjoy. I picked German Octoberfest, not knowing that according to the instructions, it was a DIFFICULT level brew. I really only planned to do one fermentation (since I...