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yes...but I dont think too much got into the beer, as there was a large cake of yeast and trub at the bottom of the bucket when I was finished.

hopefully the beer comes out ok and is consistently carbonated. I guess only time will tell...next time I will definitely use a different bucket for fermentation. And not boil the priming solution as long.

I just finished bottling my first home brew. I mixed the priming sugar into boiling water for about 15 minutes, when I took it off it was a very thick syrup. I poured it into my bottling bucket, which I was also using as my fermenter and gently stirred it with a sanitized spoon. Since I did not...

Thanks for the tips. Yes, I used extract and topped the water off to 5 gallons. the only problem i had in the entire process was a slight boil over, not sure if this could have contributed to a lower gravity though. Depending on my mood tomorrow I will either bottle or wait until it reaches the...

I am currently brewing my first home-brew. I accidentally forgot to take an original gravity reading before i began fermentation. It has been fermenting for almost ten days. According to the recipe the original gravity should have been between 1.040 and 1.045 (since i never took the initial...

thanks for the advice, I plan on moving up to all grain after a few batches of extract. Kegging is definitely in my future, just gotta get the basics down first.

Ok, i think I am going to wait 2 weeks, take a hydrometer reading, and depending on the results i will either give it another week or bottle it. I will wait hopefully 3 weeks after it is bottled to refrigerate, although I'm sure i wont be able to resist trying at least one bottle before 3 weeks...

thanks for the help guys, also should i avoid racking into the carboy? will using a secondary fermenter help or is it pretty much unnecessary?

i just got a home brew kit from home sweet homebrew, its a home brew shop in Philadelphia. Last night i started fermenting my first brew: Kap'n Trips Kolsch. It is currently in the primary fermenter, a 7 gallon bucket. I received a glass carboy with the kit but after reading several threads on...

i just got a home brew kit from home sweet homebrew, its a home brew shop in Philadelphia. Last night i started fermenting my first brew: Kap'n Trips Kolsch. It is currently in the primary fermenter, a 7 gallon bucket. I received a glass carboy with the kit but after reading several threads on...