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Can a mod please move this to bottling. My bad.

So I just bottled my first ever batch. I finished the first six bottles and got distracted talking to my wife. Then I realized that I had my arm in my bottling bucket not my sanitizer bucket with the bottles and caps.... luckily my arm was covered in sanitizer from reaching in the other bucket...

I’m going to check the fg on my first batch tomorrow in preparation for bottling Friday. Do I need to resanitize the lid and airlock before putting it back on the bucket for the last few days? I don’t plan on the lid touching any other surface I’m just going to unseal it and let it rest to the...

It’s filled with star San but I think I’m going to use vodka in the future

Thanks for the help! The smell is coming from the airlock. It smells good. At first it smelled like a fruity bread smell and it keeps getting more and more like a beer smell. Today is the strongest smell wise and you can really smell and alcohol smell to it. Not that my nose is the most accurate...

So I just started brewing my first batch last Friday evening. Saturday morning I started to see airlock activity, but now it seems there’s no activity happening with the airlock. There is a strong smell almost like liquor so I think it’s still fermenting. Is this normal or should I check...

Hey everyone, I'm in Jacksonville, FL and looking to get into brewing my own beer. I don't really know much about it yet other than reading some stuff online and watching some videos, but it seems like something I'd love to do. Right now I'm trying to figure out what I need. Right now I'm...