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Is it fixable through enzymes?

I'm back!!!! Ordered a 600d and it finally came in. My thermometers don't go below 50f so I couldn't use ice. I started by inserting them (i have two thermometers) in warm water and taking up the temperature observing the difference. One thermometer kept within a few degrees for the entire...

Thanks for chiming in! Just as an aside I'm in episode 30 and just discovered your podcast last month slowly making my way through it. I'll consider the SNS although I did just invest in a 5L flask.

I don't have any fermentation control. It's 100% possible that this happened over and over and over again. I have a smart thermostat that adjusts the temperature if I'm not home or when I'm sleeping. I'm not doing anything to help regulate the temperature of the carboy. So on a given day the...

Thanks for the help so far! I only have a sticker on the side of the carboy so thats as accurate as I can get for temperature. I haven't monitored the temperature but it usually develops a nice krausen and gets me hopeful before it falls flat. On the starter I cool the wort after boiling...

I haven't calibrated my thermometer so it is possible. On the first batch of deceptions stout it is highly likely that it got over 160. Possible on second batch as well since the thermometer was hovering around 158ish. The brown ale I was much more concerned and stayed at 152 but the thermometer...

Sadly I'm using a hydrometer and I tested it in water at it reads 1.000. The FFT sample also read fine.

In all the situations below I used the shake method for oxygenation. Fermentation temperatures range from 65-69F. I made the deceptions stout: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/deception-cream-stout.141483/ I didn't write down the mash temperature but I followed the recipe. Hit the OG...

PLA will continue to absorb moisture over time and become brittle. I would recommend PETG. It is really easy to print with only requiring a higher temperature. PETG is food safe as well. PETG has the benefite of being temperature resistant and stronger than PLA also.

The obvious being the beer was bad to start with lol. It's memorial weekend I know people that would be happy to consume this.

I have a Miller light keg that was filled in January and since then has been sitting outside. I tapped it and found that it still had some carbonation to it and tasted like Miller light. I can hook it back up to co2 and care it up. Any reason to not drink it? Weather ranges from freezing to 80...

Ended up stabilizing at 1.07 which means the beer is at most 3.8% alcohol. The yeast ended up falling out and the beer tasted good but too sweet. Glad I'm making all these mistakes on the small batches before I get into really making beer.

Thats good advice I'll pick up a bucket and lid tonight. I was referring to whatever Mr. Beer includes in their kit as sanitizer.

I always sanitize everything with either starsan or that powder stuff that came with the Mr. Beer kit though I think I'll avoid it in the future when it dries it left a white powder behind.

I think the blue/grey is just the lighting this is the opening of a Mr. Beer kit the color appears creamy/white and uniform. I'll let it be hopefully this gets smaller (yeast falling out) rather than grows into something crazy. Thanks for the feedback.