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This isn't so much a problem but just a funny thing that happened last night. My wife got me a Brewers Best RIS kit for Christmas. I felt that the dry yeast pack might not be enough for a big beer like this so I made a starter with the dry yeast. Then I thought well hey I better double pitch...

What I have found after I have bottled this...it's not sour...it's actually very yeasty tasting.

Thanks for the tips. I bought some PWB and am going to soak everything in it tonight. Saturday morning I'll be brewing up my next batch. I'll fill my other bucket up with starsan and water and keep that on hand during the whole process for soaking anything I need to.

Yes it does have a rubber sealing ring and i have not cleaned that. Thanks for the tip. I'm adding it to my list of stuff to do.

Yeah I don't wipe it or rinse it. I just leave it but I think I have been spraying and not soaking enough. I'm going to make a check list with some of the ideas people have given and go through that on my next brew day.

Well this is what I'm hoping! ha This beer/cider had no sour taste last night at all. It actually was a little bitter but the recipe called for 2oz of hops. The pumpkin ale though does have a sour taste. It bottled the pumpkin one and there is a white crust at the top of all of the bottles...

Would campden help me at all to stop the infections from happening? I'm still unsure on when to use campden so I never have.

Good point here too. I did not sanitize the lid before putting it back on.

Thanks for the tips guys. I'm making a list of the different suggestions. I have been using the White Labs vials to make a yeast starter in flask so no dirty scissors are involved. ha I soak the flask in starsan before putting anything in it. The measuring cup I use is plastic. I don't...

Well everything that comes in contact I use antibacterial soup and hot water to clean everything, then after that I took almost boiling water and bleach to everything. Then I used a spray bottle of starsan on the bucket, lid, airlock. I only opened this one twice. A few days ago it looked...

haha I just got this pail.

So I put up a post a while ago about a pumpkin ale that I did that appeared to get a lacto infection. I have it bottle and it's a little sour but I think with age it will turn out good. This is a recipe from Austin Home brew which is a cider but with specialty grains and hops. It's been in...

Yep the FG is right where the recipe called for tonight. I'm going to measure it again tomorrow night to see if it's changed.

Thanks for the tips. I really appreciate it. This is how it's looking today.

Oh shoot good point about the bottle bombs. I didn't think of that. Well I will wait it out and see how it develops.

Yeah I was suspecting it might be pellicle after seeing many pictures and comparing. I'll probably bottle it tomorrow.

I feel really bad asking this but I need opinions. This is a pumpkin ale that has been in the primary for 3 weeks. I just transfered it to the secondary two days ago and this picture is in the secondary. Everything was sanitized well. There are no off smells and no off flavors. I have a...

Things are fine! I had the same issue recently and I thought something was wrong. Of course I came here and asked. Like everyone is saying, the airlock doesn't monitor fermentation. I had a 7 gallon bucket with only 5 gallons of beer in it and nothing happened in the airlock at all just...

I used to add regular sugar and then I started to use the sugar drops but it was a pain to measure enough for each bottle or to drop one tab in every bottle. Like Revvy said, you are stuck with the amount of sugar the drop is which might give it more carbonation that they style of beer you are...

haha I have done this. I put the bottles on the floor and held the bottling wand with my toes and used my hands for working the siphon. haha