Recent content by Wild_Fly

Stone Brewing Collaboration R and R Coconut IPA

I am going to try heat sterilizing everything I can and I've already started bleaching some things. I use distilled water with salt additions so there really shouldn't be any chlorine or chloramine present. One thing that might seem blatantly obvious is that when I cooled my wort in an ice bath...

So, just to give an update... the beer is absolutely awful. I was kegging my cream ale and tasted a sample and it had the weirdest taste. There is no real way to describe it. After taking two sips I was gagging. Absolutely disgusting. And this is even after buying a new carboy and and racking...

people at work always tell me "figures... i mean, you make your own beer, you grow your own food, you build your own furniture. do you ever do anything fun?" it's always kinda funny to me because all those thing are exactly the things i think are fun. people make home brewing out to be a chore.

So I just racked to secondary and I will lager for the next few months. Thanks for the help.

The high ph could definitely be the problem. I did a little research on ph during the mash and learned some good stuff. I didn't pay attention to ph at all in any of my brews, so I don't really have any way of knowing what went wrong. Next time for sure though, I will check the ph and adjust...

Thanks for the replies. Reinstone, what kind of ph issues could there be? I have not learned a lot about ph yet. two one seven, I used wyeast 3724 in the saison do you know if this strain has brett in it? I believe it is Duponts strain.

Hey everyone. I have a few questions regarding infections, but first the backstory. I brewed a Saison a few months ago, which I had many complications with such a unreliable temperature control and stuck fermentation. Long story short, the Saison was sour, very sour. I didn't realize this...

I just started the process of kegging, but so far things to know are: 1. You are going to have to take apart the system for cleaning anyway, so the convenience of having it put together when it is shipped to you is not worth the extra cash. 2. Clean thoroughly, especially if you buy the used...