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Hi all, Thanks for the feedbacks. So what I should do next is to take a sample, if there is no buttery smell or taste of diacetyl then I can go on to bottle the beer. If there is presence of buttery taste/smell then the batch is not worth bottling and I should dump it. This is what I have...

Hi @wepeeler, Unfortunately I cant sample before bottling but maybe I can plug a alcohol drenched wool on the air-lock openings and drain some sample. Just a question, why sampling? Is it to test if the aroma of the dry hop has reached the desired level? I am concern if I bottle it and the...

Hi all, Have a batch of beer been fermenting for 3 weeks now, however I added dry hop in a bag 3 days before the 3 weeks mark. After adding the hop bag, the air-lock bubbling becomes more active. Should I just bottle it at the 3 weeks mark or I should wait for the air-lock activity to stop...

@G_robertus You're right! Carbonation process started right after my last reply to this thread 🤩 As of now most of the bottles have sign of carb except for one which is too dark a glass to see clearly at least not until it has accumulate a good amount of foam like the one in the video😄 These...

I honestly do not know what happened to the gravity. But there is a incident happened during the transfer of the wort from the kettle to the fermenter that might induce contamination to the wort. I was pouring the wort into a vessel with a spigot with a filter bag in it so the wort goes through...

Hi all, I have some question regarding secondary (bottle carb) as well. I brewed RIS according to https://brewersbestkits.com/assets/1046_russianimperialstout_recipe.pdf The only difference is I used Kveik ale yeast that ferment at higher temperature. The OG is 1.066 and FG is around...

@VikeMan ah I used the lay man method and google for 1 teaspoon sugar in grams which comes to about 4grams per teaspoon but I still end up having more than necessary. Looks like I gonna be careful opening those swing caps or PET for those I primed with Mr.Beer's guide. I have then researched...

@bruce_the_loon the caps are rigid like the regulars found on any pepsi cola, and my bad for not taking the full picture, there are atleast another half of the cap cut off above the photo that probably leads to the suspicion of the cap not having the regular amount of threads but they do atleast...

Hi Mac, They originally used to store tea kind of drink. Should I be worry? I stored them away from my other bottled beer already being so worried about it bursting in the middle of no where. Hey thanks for the tips. Will squeeze out any air possible the next time so they have more room for...

Yeah I clean them with bottle brush and sanitize with StarSan before racking beer into them. For 1 liter I added 12grams of normal household sugar(2 and half teaspoon as per below. The beer was in the fv for 3 weeks. Thanks for the reply 😊

Hi guys, Bottled 2 1liters PET bottles 4 days ago, because of their squarish shape, they are beginning to look like a giant grenade to me. I read somewhere they withstand pressure better than a glass equivalent. I am beginning to worry that it might explode and shatter other glass bottle stored...

Repeated by mistake. Message is one above Dgallo's reply. Thanks Dgallo & IslandLizard!

Somehow after bottling I lay the bottle down for some reason I can no longer remember, when I go to check it after a few days I found something stick to the inside wall of the bottle and does not seems to be going anywhere. Are these infections as well?

Just bottled this yesterday, new to homebrew trying some DME with Hallertauer Tradition(They smell surprisingly by itself alone😙 . And brewed a 5 gallon dry malt and barley extract with Mosiac. Doing mostly DME with random hops ale for now 😄 In queue to brew will be Irish Style Red Ale...

Hi all, Thanks for the replies. Just done bottling yesterday. @Rish are all stouts the same as in leaving them a bit (one week at least) longer than for beers or ale or it only applies to RIS? Encountered one problem while bottling today(in the last bottling as well but forgotten to ask...