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Hey, a friend and I are brewing for the first time, and are using the beer simply beer kit, and their recipe for a brown ale. We bottled the other day and I took a few pictures through the hole for the airlock. This isn’t an infection is it? Or is the big chunk on the right just remnants of the...

Ok, so we finally bottled all of it, and it came out to 40 bottles because we had only about 4.5 gallons. We did this at 65-ish degrees, and were aiming for a CO2 volume of 2, and plugged these factors into a home brewing calculator. Please keep in mind that we did this at 1AM and if there’s a...

Thanks so much for the great advice! And thanks for the link, I’ve done a lot more research, and my friend and I have decided to try to bottle a bit of everything so we can figure out what is easiest and what we like. The plan so far is to bottle 12 with honey, 12 with molasses, 12 with dark...

Update: I took a hydrometer reading the other day, and it read 1.011(about where it should be) so I’ll take another tonight to see if it’s the same, and then probably bottle soon, but due to our schedules we will probably have to bottle Friday(and we need to order more bottles and supplies)...

Ah ok, sorry about the late reply, but thanks to all of y’all for helping me out!

Wow, that was a quick reply, thanks! And we aren’t feeling very patient, and personally I think that the estimated time until done is a little high But to just check the timeframe, it should take about 2 weeks(i forget the name of this stage, primary?) then can’t you bottle it, then keep it in...

Hey, so a friend and I recently bought a brewed a brown ale from a Beer Simply Beer kit. We decided that we want to make a good amount of beer so bought another recipe and bucket. The plan is to use a single fermenation bucket for each recipe, and to also bottle it out of the same bucket. I know...