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I decided to attempt my first lager (BIAB). Just a clean pilsner - 100% pilsner malt and saaz, that's it. Saflager W 34/70. I have no fancy equipment whatsoever. Really elementary setup of putting the fermenter in a wide bucket filled with water, replacing frozen PET bottles to keep it cold...

I made an Irish red....fermented for two weeks at around 22C using Fermoale AY3. Carbonated to 2.2 vols and let condition for one week. ( It's very warm where I am so 1 week has always given me great carbonation). Refridgerated for a day and just cracked one open. I can definitely get some sour...

Was going to bottle when I noticed white spotty stuff...and some roughly circular formations on the surface of the beer. Not so prominent that you can tell easily, but I've never seen it before and it's not CO2 bubbles. Feels like a terrible waste to throw away the entire beer, especially since...

Used s-04 in an IPA which was off to a very slow start but checked it today to find krausen oozing out of the airlock. I just washed out the airlock and put it back (the krausen is pretty high...almost near the mouth of the fermenter which is a 10 litre bottle, tapered at the top). Now after...

Going to do my first BIAB IPA. First off I'm not sure if this is an American IPA or just an APA. Second, I don't have American 2 row...I have Belgian Pale malt hence the fake. Other than that, does this work? Would love your thoughts on how you think this would turn out in terms of flavour. Do...

Going to attempt (something close to a) kolsch with what ingredients I have and my very basic equipment. I'm planning to use just 100% pilsner malt....I don't have any munich or Vienna malt. Just a 60 min and 10 min saaz addition. I have three yeasts - fermoale AY3, S-04, and Belgium Abbaye...

I bottled my wheat ale (American/Belgian/German hybrid Ihavenoideawhat) and left it to condition for 5 days. It's pretty warm where I am. Now two things have happened. 1) The beer seems to have cleared a bit, but it's lost the characteristic cloudiness of a wheat beer. 2) In one of the bigger...

I don't have the equipment to lager or cold ferment. I was wondering if I just used pilsner malt (maaaybe add a bit off crystal), and a pinch of saaz, and use an ale yeast like s-04 and ferment at 18 - 22C, what will I end up with?

I've got some Hydrogen peroxide and washing soda. I've read to mix equal parts water and peroxide and washing soda - meaning for eg. 1 cup water + 1/2 cup each of h2O2 and washing soda. THing is the peroxide is a 35% solution. It says to dilute it to a 3% solution if the need arises. Would this...

I've left a wheat ale in the fermenter for about two weeks now. About one week in the bubbling had long since stopped and I took a sample for the FG reading. However after I closed it back up, very slow bubbling has started again and has continued for several days.....like one bubble every...

So I don't have a bottling bucket. I use a 5 litre water dispenser with a tap so I siphon from my fermenter into the dispenser, and then it's easy cos I can just open the tap into bottles (I let it flow down the set to avoid as much oxygenation as possible - don't know if this is the best?)...

It's just about ready to bottle my first oatmeal stout. I'm planning to bottle in PET bottles this time. Reason being last time I bottled an extract in both swing tops and PET and the ones in the swing tops hardly carbonated while the ones in the PET carbonated really well so I'm guessing the...

Been shuttling between Belgian blonde and an American wheat...not sure I know the difference - Belgian blonde uses unmalted wheat while American uses malted? Anyway I have wheat malt so thought I'd go with a simple Belgian Pale Ale 60% and Wheat malt 40%. Is this too high for malted wheat? Can I...

Hi guys, So I did a BIAB stout a few days ago...used a yeast that my supplier just markets as 'stout/porter' yeast. About half a day into the fermentation there was heavy activity, bubbling. The next day there was a thick krausen on top. However, the day after that (two days in), bubbling...

Hello fellow chemists, I’m from Chennai, India and I should say, I started brewing for the wrong reasons but now I’m hooked! Since alcohol shops have been shut since the beginning of the lockdown, I started brewing out of desperation....just cos I wanted a beer! :p Anyway, after starting my...