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Thanks for your thoughts Sunfire96, the Northern Brewer calculator listed the Hefe at 3.6 vol of CO2. I'll be brewing my next batch (3rd ever!) this weekend. With everyones help on this thread, I now feel much more confident in a successful and tasty batch.

Thanks andersk - I’m using the 12 oz standard long neck bottles with a hand capper. I decided on the hand capper merely out of cost, but I really do like those bench cappers. In your experience, do they offer a more consistent seal, or is it just a more convenient way of bottling? Either way...

That’s a good point Bill, thank you. I’ll definitely be more attentive with making sure my priming solution is mixed in well enough on the next batch (which I'm hoping will be this weekend). If I remember correctly, I mixed my sugar with 8 fluid oz of water. Would this be considered too little...

rburrelli - Thank you greatly for the clarification. Your, and everyone else's, answers have saved a lot of future brews.

That's good to know. I'm realizing that learning to brew is similar to walking along the shoreline. You don't realize how deep the ocean is until you jump in.

Tobor - That's a good point re: the caps. I double checked them and they are indeed meant for bottling. As you mentioned, I think the general consensus is becoming that I miscalculated my priming sugar. I calculated for the temp I crashed at, not the highest temp. I see now how that can impact...

Hi Drewch - Thanks for your suggestions. Regarding #2, I feel I mixed everything well enough, but being so new to this, I question my every step. I think you're probably right on with #4, I'm going to put the batch someplace warmer and give it some more time. I'm ok with it not working out, as...

Jim - Thanks so much for your insight. I feel you're probably right with your last suggestion. My priming sugar was 3.34 oz for my 3 gal batch size (based on the 34 degree temp it was coming from). The priming sugar would have been 4.49 oz if I calculated for the highest fermentation temp (71)...

Hi All, Beginning all-grain brewer here with a carbonation question. My second ever batch (Hefe) seemed to go perfectly through the whole process, but I have almost no carbonation in the final product. Just a tiny little hiss when the bottle top opens, but no carbonation in the glass. The taste...