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Thanks! I think i understand. More headspace = more likelihood of a bottle bomb?

So it's best to fill up as much as you can? I'm pretty new at this and just bottled my 5th batch. My 4th batch was really flat and gross. I think it got oxygenated. So this time I made sure to add more sugar and fill up more than I had previously but I was worried that without more headspace...

Yeah, something I should have done

Yeah, I was talking to a friend of mine about it last night and he asked why I would need to bother doing a whirlpool at all with that filter in place and I'm like "uhhhh.....good point". So I guess I'll just snap that hook ring off (or bend it really low and just not whirlpool going forward.....

Hi everyone, I just did my first brew with one of these and it did not go very smoothly to say the least. Like others on here the hook ring on the top was too big and it caused my bottom GF perf plate to keep moving around when i was mixing the mash. It got so bad the plate must have lifted up...