I don't know if it would work with beer the same way, but whenever I've had an infected wine (admittedly only in gallon batches) then I heat it enough to kill infection but not remove alcohol, and then restart yeast. Has always worked.
There's actually quite a good point for making our own brewing sticks. Soak them in the pure yeast of choice first then let them evolve naturally. Off to carve mine too.
Took this to our beer group for evaluation. It had really changed, not in a good way, from the early nicer version it had been. Unlike the acceptable versions we've so far made. This version, although still just about drinkable, had a sharper burny fusil flavour undermining the maltiness, and...
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Beer 1 - original correct recipe = got chucked as it had grown something weird in it
Beer 2 - half and half = quite nice but unstable ferm temps made it taste a bit like aspirins. Drinkable but not necessarily delicious (yet). Might improve with time.
Beer 3 & 4 -...
The gluten bit doesn't bother me. Perhaps making it gluten free catches all the more customers.
My supplier does MO and GP so I might do a side by side SMASH just to learn. It was a nice refreshing beer.
Beers 2 & 3 look as if they're brewing ok, but beer 1 has a sort of fleshy brain thing filling the whole demi. There appears to be beer around it but it's huge. Weird.
Beer details are generous with information :-
IPA session 3.9*
Uses Golden Promise malt
Gluten free
Citra and Ekuanot hops in whirlpool and dry hop
London Ale II yeast (another site says London Fog ale yeast)
I've got Lager Malt and Maris otter plus a small flavouring selection of other malts...
Friday afternoon... it has taken all this time and all these beers to use up that 20 litres of silly maths mistake. Basically I'd put in ten times the amount of crystal due to a single decimal point error, and enough ignorance/stupidity not to automatically recognise it at the time.
Beer 1 =...
Done a mega lot of reading on how to use crystal and caramalts properly. With a max of 10-20% then this mistaken blend is not looking promising. So decided how to fix it whilst retaining a good spirit of curiosity and using this as a good learning curve.
Make a new brew of MO and Spelt to...
Very, and yes. I was preparing all the recipes on a spreadsheet and preparing the tun when the whole household decided to come and cook supper and pancakes all around me. I fled with a scrap of paper and settled down in another place to weigh stuff so just wasn't thinking straight. Madness now i...
Sussed it I think. In order to make the right proportions back for at least one demijohn of the correct(ish) recipe I need to take out a 10% sample of my above horlicks and add it to a new mash of the original recipe Maris otter and spelt quantity minus 10%.
So use 2 litres of my current...
We started this beer last night thinking we were ready enough. Quite a newbs horlicks went on. Working with much larger equipment takes some getting used to, but it's fun anyway.
Temps weren't accurately staying on target for a stepped mash. The temp regulator on the tun must be rather old, so...
A job hop lot has just arrived. I hope East Kent Goldings and Bramling Cross will do for the UK hops (with also Summit, Pacific Gem, and Green bullet hops as part of the package). I'll look up their profiles. How exciting. I might do this beer first.
Real FF on the left and ours in the middle. Still a bit cloudy from the thief. FG 1.010 so ready to bottle tomorrow. Colour good. Tastes and smells malty but is much hoppier than we remember it being before. I might have made a calculation mistake as the hop quantities did seem a little...
Very nice to be back. Thank you.
We re-mashed the spent grain to have another go at the nice fruity 'little beer' Rooibos tea version once again. Interestingly there was very nearly no sugar at all in the resulting wort. Just 1.006 at best after the boil. So I suppose it means this system is...
Hello lovely beer people. Haven't been here for ages as haven't been brewing for a long time. However, we have just been given some proper beer kit to make larger batches with. Very, very happy about that, so have set about making a larger attempt at this Fursty Ferret again. Ishy-ish as we...