thomrenault
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Hello everyone, I just started brewing. I worked with a cooper's lager kit which I had in the primary fermenter for the last week. I added a cup of molasses which I boiled in about 3-4 cups of water two days ago, and I thought that fermentation had stopped today, so I bottled some of the batch... about 16 of the large PET bottles (750 ml). While I was bottling I tasted the beer and it seemed a bit sweet, so I checked my hydrometer (which I'm not really sure how to use, and it looked like the reading was 1.02) I was adding about half of the sugar which the coopers recipe called for to each bottle, because I wasn't sure that primary fermentation had stopped. So now I'm worried that these bottles will be over carbonated, and become bottle bombs. My fermenter is producing bubbles about ever 10-15 seconds, but I didn't notice when I first checked because the tv was on loud in the other room, and the room with the fermenter was pretty dark. Does anyone know how much carbonation I can expect in these bottles?