so far ive keged my beer as soon as it was done ferminting (reached my target gravity)
my all grain had a funny flavor almost like raw barley
well newbys there is no substatute for time
its been 3 weeks and 1 day since i pitched
and 2 weeks since i keged and in no longer looks like
a...
all grain
i read the band aid flavor can be wild yeast
and i used a different yeast
i used the same sanatizer easy clean
and same water local tap
and my other two batches did not have this problem at all
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all the pictures and links im trying to put up are not seeming to want to work correctly not sure why
any way look up hydromiter test jar and you will see what im talking about
here is a great solution i do and has worked well for me
pitch your yeast put lid on and aerate by shaking bucket
when you take the lid back off to do your first sg reading(yeast now well mixed)
buy one of those tubes to measure your sg in
fill with your wort put your hydromiter in
and...
i just brewed a batch of beer that went bad (band aid flavor
just as well because the gravity was only 1.020 not a good extraction(not enough sparge water will fix that next time)
plus im wondering can you use 100%wheat or do you have to use some barley
for the amylase enzyme or does malted...
thanks
is it true a wheat beer is able to be drunk after one week
with out tasting green?
my first batch was a wheat frome extract and was not bad
i just want to do all grain because its more from scratch and much less expensive
whats the difference in taste between green beer and beer thats been sitting in the keg for a couple 3 weeks?
i kegged my beer after 10 days
it was a all grain beer
it tasts like barley
smells like when your boiling you wort
like a brewry smell
not undrinkabe but different
is this the...
a 1500 watt electric stove top burner (8 inch)is about 5,000 btu
a natural or propain gas stove burner is about 10,000 btu
a turkey fryer burner is like 49,000 btu huge difference
all the hardware/wholsale cubs have them right now 59 to 99 bucks is what i seen
for a 30 to36 qt pot
fyi
thaks chris good info
in the future ill starte making multable batches
so im not try ing to drink them as soon as possable
but its just to hard to wait
did i tell you i have a.d.d. oops
well ill try my best