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Sounds like you got an acetobacter infection at least in that bottle....the other ones might still be good.

I'm looking for a yeast that's like WLP001, but with more pronounced fruity notes. Suggestions?

Fuggles has it's place in English beers. I'm half mexican so I grew used to cilantro since my mom put it in everything, even though I'm one of those people that it tastes soapy to. I very rarely cook with it myself but when I do I just put a tiny amount since it tastes so strong to me.

W T F Looks a bit too...organized...for comfort. Send off to a lab for analysis, I think you just captured an alien microorganism. Looks like a combination of the inside of an orange and an animal's intestines.

This thread is so hilarious, and so depressing.

Hi I'm thread starter. Just wanted to stop by and let people know I'm still around, and I'm so happy to see all the neat, cool stuff people have been doing because of this thread. Happy brewing and bug collecting :mug:

AA is good if your fermentation hits a "wall" because there are no fermentable sugars left but there's still longer chain sugars around keeping your gravity up. Usually this happens with higher g extract beers or AGs where your mash didn't go as planned. It's also good for boosting the...

Needs moar pics!

This'd be the first time I ever heard of WLP001 throwing off raspberry! Anyway she probably just didn't have sufficient vocab to describe what she was tasting.

I made an american strong ale and let some girl taste it, she like it and SWORE she tasted raspberries in it (it didn't have any fruit).

I do direct fire and it works fine, and seems to give better flavor but you have to keep the grain moving.

This guy sounds lonely.

I'm usually picky about who I share my beer with, so I can avoid these types of situations. The one time I did share my beer with neighbors they said "that's good beer man, it got me ****ed up!"

Sorry but I find this rather funny; even the yeasts in Japan are clean and efficient.

Yeah, boil and hop the wort, and leave it out with cheese cloth. Time seems to really depend. Took me 2 weeks to get anything but just takes a couple of days for others.