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Yeah, its up to about 67 now, and climbing, the room has been heating up for about a day. So a swirl to move the yeast around, huh? Ok, I'll do that.

No, we won't bottle at that. I am using a hydrometer to check gravity. So far, the reading dropped from 1.021 to 1.020. I will wait until we stop getting lower readings. The instructions say not to bottle unless gravity is 1.020 or lower. The guy at the brew shop suggested shaking the carboy...

Yes, that is a concern. I was able to spent the extra set up money without the wife getting to upset, if a bunch of beer grenades start going off in the house, her attitude towards this endeavour may change.

The reading was 1.021, we bottle in two days, I will check again beforehand. I lean towards simply bottling and hoping it all turns out, and it's our first brew in many years. Thanks for the input!

We did up a batch of beer from a partial grain craft beer kit. It was in the fermentor for 9 days, we were going to bottle it the following weekend. Unfortunately, we had an ice storm which knocked out the power for three days. The temperature dropped to about 45-50 degrees F. With the power...

Hi everyone Just joined up after my brother told me about this place, jerrygallant, nice site, lots of info! Used to make a lot of beer kits years ago, we thought we would start brewing again