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Bugger, eh? I’m out of the running, too.

An oatmeal stout that should be ready in time for St Patrick’s Day.

My original recipe that I based my batches on says to clean with soap and water and then sanitise. I will look for the alkaline brewers wash instead. I have never heard of it. Good information. Thanks, again.

Yes, I do diligently clean the work surfaces and devices with soap and water and rinse thoroughly. I do not set anything down once I’ve sanitised it. If I check the cooling temperature, for example, I re-clean and sanitise the thermometer. I am pretty careful about that. I never had a...

Wow! Thats wild and so interesting. I live by a conservation area but not a farm. Pretty interesting!

Okay, thank you for the information. That’s two folks now that said that so I have gone out and picked up StarSan and new tubing. On the bottle of potassium metabisulphite it says to sanitise use 1 tablespoon per litre of water. It’s not working for me though, so StarSan it is! Thanks.

I definitely will. I will also buy a new type of sanitiser such as Starsan (I think I’ve seen it written on this forum). I now have a renewed interest to start again on the beer making. I was enjoying it so much but then got fed up with the botched batches. My paranoid hat will be firmly on...

Thank you for that detailed information! Okay, I think I can figure out my culprit. The plastic tubing that I have is about 6 years old and ut is, indeed, looking rough. I use glass for fermentation and potassium metabisulphite for sanitation. I sanitise diligently both before use and after...

I have made 30 5 gallon batches of different made up recipes. I started out all right and enjoyed my brews. Then, the last 5 batches keep turning out sour. I can’t stand the taste so I have been dumping them out and trying again. Also, they were over carbonated despite using the calculator...

Good to know and a great suggestion to get an inkling of what it smells like so I know what to be looking for. Very helpful. I will write down your helpful suggestions in my notes. Thanks for your time and for sharing your knowledge. Also, I’ll go through Amazon. I like to support my small...

You’re a wealth of information! Thanks. Another thing that I didn’t know about. I went yesterday to the small brew supply place in town, but it didn’t have pH strips or a reader. So, now that I know it’s my lack of understanding and not the metre, I’ll follow up with learning to regularly...

Thank you! I bottled in swing top glass pints. It’s in a warm place. I’ll empty them out today and ferment further. Ugh.

Thank you for responding! Will do that today.

Okay, thanks for that. My pH reader is a cheapie so I won’t count on that. I’ll head out today and buy a new one and tested. Thanks for the support.

Yikes! I just this morning bottled my ginger beer, as per the recipe on this forum, and I think that given what you’ve just said, I’ll be having bottle bombs go off in my basement. The SG read 1.052 after adding the sugar. Holy cow, I hope I didn’t screw up. Any thoughts on this? Or have I...

I got out my pH reader just now and it says 6.8. Is that high? Re: ingredient list I think I am not on the right track. It later calls for “Kmeta” and when I looked that up, it said that it’s potassium metabisulphite. It calls for Sorbate, which I took to mean potassium sorbate...

No Tilt, just a regular glass hydrometer. I took a reading again this morning and it’s the exact same. It’s a shame that it’s not fermenting after the extra care I put into the prep so that there’d be low to no sulphites or chlorine and as is, it tastes fantastic…but I wanted a bit of a bang...

Very interesting. I had no idea. Thanks for taking the time to explain. At least it’s an indication that something is happening in the bucket, despite the no bubbles. I live in hope.

That’s great information. Thank you. Yes, I have both of those to hand, as the recipe later calls for their addition. What a learning curve. Cheers for the help.