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Not that bothered either, I expected haze as I used tap water. Honestly I’m mostly relieved it wasn’t a stuck fermentation as I originally thought. It was just done. Nuts. Might make this a cloudy hard lemonade, it’s pretty good with a little sugar and lots of lemon juice.

Update on my hard seltzer. I’m rusty and forgot you can’t take late ferm readings with a refractometer. The 4 brix i was reading was actually 0.995 it was finished in 48hrs. It’s cloudy and tastes like a watered down wine, but mixes well with squash. Cold crashing to see if I can get rid of some...

“Brewed” a 1.052 hard seltzer on Saturday afternoon with 3kg dextrose and propper omega nutrients. Didn’t seem to krausen but when I checked it this morning it’s dropped to 1.027. I boiled a sachet of bakers yeast and tossed it in for the sake of it. No tempurature control, just insulation...

Ordering a packet of dry lutra to do a hard seltzer, planning on washing the dregs and pitching into an iipa afterwards. Gonna keep the seltzer around 1.045 and will feed it daily. Any reason why this would be a bad idea?

We have that, it's a bit bland to my palate, sorta ricey like kirin... Touch hoppier though... Sent from my HTC One mini using Home Brew mobile app

might just be white film mold. taste it, if it is, its harmless but ugly.

Absolutely, the worms in my compost pile are so numerous that digging into it gives a spade full of wrigglers!

it can take much longer than that, and you dont need an airlock, a bit of foil covering the top would do. the viability of these yeasts can be very questionable as they are in a high alchohol environment, and may have been for a long time. just wait, i have cultured chimay yeast befor from a...

I have a house ipa called amarillo brillo after frank zappas song camarillo brillo

Read designing great beers and wild beers, both will give you an insight to recipe formulation and explain what ingredients do what they do in beer.

Teehee, lol. Not to detract from this awesome thread! Carry on gentlemen, this might be the best current Hbt thread.

Hey, glad this beer is alive, enjoy the stress free drinking!

i dont understand why you would add a fresh vial to an enourmous yeast cake. i feel that would only be a waste. i would also be concerned that the yeast cake left over from a 10% abv beer would be less than suitable for another beer, but on the other hand it would probably work. my approach...

subbed too. this is great!

white film mold methinks. harmless but ugly if it is. and yes, bleach the crap out of that bucket.