What will happen if I bottle my beer before its fully fermented? Is it dangerous?

You can buy Beer Kits from Wilkinson's which are pretty cheap to buy but you will need to buy the equipment first like Fermenting bucket, Pressure barrel which is optional, bottles, Crown caps or try eBay which is also another option I have been making my own beer & wine for over 7 years now :)

There is always a bit up of pressure as this allows the carbonation to take place. If you put bottles of beer in the fridge after bottling, it helps to relieve some of the pressure. But the real answer lies in the speed that you open the bottles. Do it really really slowly to allow the pressure to slowly release itself.

Do it too fast and you will shoot beer all over the place.

It's very hard to tell just by looking at a beer that it is actually fermenting, so don't panic if it doesn't seem to be any different to you. But some of the basic signs of fermentation are;

Bubbling

Yeast residue floating to the surface

There are a couple of reasons that your beer could be over carbonated. Maybe you used too much priming sugar? Or maybe your beer was still in the fermentation process when you bottled it. If the fizziness in the beer comes with a horrible smell, then it's probably infected and you should just chuck it out.

If you are making your own Ale, then around 65-70 degrees F is a good temperature. Largers ferment better around 50 degreees F.

Be careful because if you ferment your beer too warm it could have an unpleasant flavor. And if you make the temperature too cold, the yeast might stop working. So it's hard to get the balance right but experience helps.

On average your beer should have fermented within a week but it's not something you should guess. Take a hydrometer reading and if several readings over a few days show no change in gravity, then it's ok to start the bottling process.

First of all don't panic. You can't really tell by looking at a beer whether it's fermenting or not. You can take another hydrometer reading. On average, if the final reading is around 25% of your original gravity reading then you know the beer is fermented.

In the simplest form, beer is made through a 5-step process: malting, mashing, boiling, fermenting and bottling/aging. To find out more about each step please go to the link below.

http://blog.beeriety.com/2009/07/06/how-beer-is-made/

clean all coils and fins and filter ...don't block exhaust with anything (should be no sugar left to ferment)

Just played around tonite with the Mr. Beer version of what I am guessing is the same thing.

Your biggest problem will be determining the liquid voiume it makes so you know the TOTAL AMOUNT OF WATER you will need... saw one on Ebay and seems the seller can't figure out the amount of beer if makes, so not bidding much on it.

I have noticed most kits make five gallons, but MrBeer makes two gallons. If you can figure out if it makes five or two, then email [email protected] and I can give you the rundown on how to make it.

Easy, just the sanitation takes the longest. EVERYTHING needs ten min. soak in the stuff. Summary for now seems to be use half the sanitizor to sterilize the equipment, other half for the bottles you use when the beer is done fermenting.

dissolve the sugar ('booster') in 1/8th volume of water (cold) used, let it reach a boil, then remove from heat and throw in the mix that is in the can (warm can so it's easier to get out), then put it into the fermentor that's already 1/2 volume of water, stir well, fill the container the rest of the way (rest of the water). Stir well again. Sprinkle the yeast on top, wait five minutes, stir yeast into the solution, then close up, and wait a week or two.

After sterilization, Put regular sugar (3/4 teasp per 12 oz) in each bottle you're gonna fill with beer, and store for at least three days away from light. Bottle too soon, it will explode, wait too long, it will be flat, etc. I'm going to wait two weeks so I won't have exploding bottles... I hope...

Look on the internet, for more details, or I'll scan the MrBeer booklet (six pages or less have the main information, signs to look for, warnings, etc). I'll put it into Word format, PDF format, whatever I can get to work for you. But seems that the box, according to the ebay seller who has one just like it, doesn't say the volume of beer it makes, so look at the fermentation container, and see if you get an idea that way.

Oh, and U tube has a video of MrBeer being used. SEEMS simple enough