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But what would be causing the astringency?

All-grain milling my own. Have had 2 ruined batches in a row! Same Better bottle carbouy. Smell is foul very harsh on the nose taste is even worse. starts bitter finishes even worse terrible! No pic as both looked fine. After first ruined batch i used star san, vinegar, bleach, then more star...

Never tried its always had kegs in it :D I could measure it and see

First all-grain batch i went with a pliny clone. Racked to secondary just now and get a sg of 1.035 ( I know Its not done yet but havent seen any activity in a week. This is day 14 so I racked and dry hopped as prescribed. Using a refractomer so im pretty sure of sg. Will it come down? Is this...

No have softened water here. Also washed again with starsan and rinsed multiple times and the spots are still there. They are everywhere in fact. Thinking this carboy is toasted! thanks for looking! Matt

After soaking carboy In pbw and rinsing I noticed these little whit spots throughout the carboy. Can Anyone identify this? Txs edit to get working pic

Thanks for the reply! Will try the bleach then starsan method and go from there! But can I and shld I drink the beer I just got out of it?

Do I dump it or tough it out? In the same carboy (plastic) I had a what I believe to be a mold infection on a secondary fermentation English bitter a little over a month ago. I went ahead and filtered and kegged it but actually just dumped it cause I couldn't stand the smell and don't think I...

Pretty sure it was mold. Looked kinda like this. The beer smells off and tastes nasty

Had my first moldy beer this weekend! Forgot to take picture (was to disappointed) English bitter but it tastes terrible! Don't know if its in my head or not but I can't drink it. Gonna make my buddy try it before I dump the keg! Not sure what went wrong sanitized everything the same as I always...

Yeah it is a pretty sight isn't it

Will do!

Thanks! This is my 5th batch since getting back into homebrew, after dabbling in it half a decade ago. By far my most active fermentation thus far!

Hello all just wanted to post about my pliney the elder clone I found this partial grain kit here: http://grains-n-beans.com/cart/pliny-the-elder-clone-russian-river-brewing-extract-with-grains-version-p-429.html So far it is looking awesome. I did a starter yeast with my new stir plate I...

Making my first starter with a Erlenmeyer flask and a homemade stir plate. Never really did see a lot of krausen but not sure if thats due to the vortexing of the stir bar or not. Has been going for 48 hours and at first it smelled like fermenting wort but just took a whiff today and it...