Recent content by arcticus

It's my first time using it so I don't know! 🤷‍♂️

Hey all, We were trying to make a non-alcoholic beer and pitched Sourvisiae. OG 1.017. After 3 days there was no blow off activity, so we pitched our go-to NA strain Lallemand Windsor. After another day or so there was some bubbling. After about 2 weeks we took the lid off and here is what we...

Brewed a non-alcoholic beer and pitched Sourvisiae. After 3 days of no blow off activity we pitched Lallemand Windsor (our usual go-to NA strain). 2 weeks later we found this :0 Any thoughts on what happened?

I am a few more years in and starting to use lactic acid to drop the mash pH and am having good success while using Beersmith3. thanks FA for the support

I'd like to re-visit this with some data. I have obtained some Lactic Acid but unsure how much to use. My water is: Total alkalinity as CaCO3 = 75mg/L Calcium 30mg/L Magnesium 2mg/L Sodium 4mg/L Chloride 3mg/L Sulphate as SO4 3mg/L pH 7.65 Mashing in 22 Litres Grain bill: 6 kg...

GREAT!!! Thanks!

Last night I did a light beer using Wyeast 2565, and I plan to lager it in my kegerator. I have a temperature controller called STC-1000 - does anyone know how to program it? The box it is attached to has two outlets on each side, one side says HOT the other side says BYPASS/COOL. Any...

OK thanks for the feedback. I have the info but just not readily available. I'll try and post water chem and grain bill soon. grains are in now and smelling delicious:ban:

Hi everyone, it's brew day today and exploring alternatives to my usual lemon juice method of lowering my mash pH, however I don't have a pH meter handy. I do have ascorbic acid from ABC cork (Canada) which is supposed to be used in wine; however, can I use this in my mash and if so, how...

First post! I wandered into my LHBS and was advised that ascorbic acid could be used to lower my mash pH. I haven't tried it yet. I have been using lemon juice until now which is expensive and not super effective. Anyone have experience using ascorbic acid to lower mash pH? Is there a...