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I've had the large bubbles occur for me as well and while I haven't been able to specifically attribute it to one thing or ther other, I have had a few ideas on what the culprit could be. For example, how were the bottles stored while allowing them to carbonate, were they stored in a bright room...

Agreed, you shouldn't worry, chances are there was positive pressure inside the entire time.

Very impressive and very cool, awesome brew room! Cheers

I agree with the swamp cooler idea. If you check the water temp often enough, you should be able to easily keep the beer in prime fermentation temps. It's a cheap and effective solution to a very important stage in the process. I even keep mine beside my bed so it can bubble me to sleep at...

Well I went ahead and ordered a bulkhead and 3 piece 1/2" ball valve from Ontario Beer Kegs, and everything went together very easily. I just kept the gasket that came with the cooler and used that in the bulkhead contruction along with the other silicone o-rings/ss washers. I filled it up...

This was my first brew as well. I turned out OK/drinkable despite my several errors, which included pushing the bung into the fermenter and fishing it out with a coat hanger AND a blow out. I aged a 6 pack for over a year and it actually tasted really good. Just goes to show that time heals...

At first I used a tape measure, then I confirmed it by placing a 1" drill bit in the hole.

Just picked up a 5G round cooler from home depot to convert to a mash tun. I was just going to pick up a standard conversion kit from bargainfittings, but it mentions that the hole can't be bigger than 7/8", so I took the spigot out and measure the hole and it's 1". Is there some sort of work...

It is beer porn afterall

Heh heh, I know, I know..... green bottles, but I take precautions, they get fully covered by towels and stored between solid objects on three sides. No light in the beer fridge either, so they should be pretty safe. @Copperpots yeah thats exactly what i did, just put a piece of hose on the...

It was a 5g batch, thanks for the reassurance

After about 25 gallons brewed, I think I finally have a comfortable bottling set up. I have a fairly small kitchen, maybe 7'x15', but the set up works pretty well and very little beer is wasted. First I siphon the brew into my DIY bottling bucket, complete with dip tube (a la Revvy), usually...

I just bottled a batch of edworts apfelwein that i fermented with champagne yeast. I hit the target SG/FG according to the recipe (1.066/0.998) and bottled into regular beer bottles. I added 3.6 oz of priming sugar. I shouldn't worry about bottle bombs since i hit the target FG correct? I...

Great story, thread has kept me company on my night shift! Looking forward to all of your updates! Cheers

Happily drinking my way through the first batch of this. Brewed the extract version and it has turned out great. Been a little of two months since brewing it. Very malty and has a nice sweetness to it. A+

Fermentation temps are pretty important. I noticed a large improvement in the taste of my beer once i started controlling the temps.

Irish Coffee.... maybe espresso?

My first two batches had off flavours, but I drank them anyways because *I* made it. Not sure I would have drank it otherwise. Though my 3 batch tastes good, so maybe it'll be a beer i let others try!

Going to make EdWorts Apfelwein on sunday

i put some tubing onto the end of a turkey baster..... just remember to squeeze the ball BEFORE you put it in the beer.... unlike squeezing it in the beer... like me.