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Oof, that's really reassuring! Alright, I will chill, and will post an update when I crack one open for a taste test!

Hey all, I'm back again. So for an update... My lager basically fermented out in 4.5 - 5 days, and I almost thought I missed the diacetyl rest. I bumped the temps up to 20°C and luckily the beer droppwd another 1 or 2 gravity points. But I recently read that LED light is bad for beers and...

Well, for the record, I don't have anything long enough to get the "eyes", so there's that. Anyway, I will be brewing this coming Saturday, and I took a whiff and tasted some wort (decanted out, of course). It smells of rotten eggs ans tastes bland for thr most part, so I think things are...

No snark taken. Generally the practices were not improved due to limited space. Simply put, my house does not have enough space to accomdate a dedicated pan. The flask is not a quality flask. It is just a vessel to hold liquids and I wouldnt trust it sitting on top of a stove. I only bought...

Ehh, im considering getting my own pan just to make DME. Shouldn't be too much of an investment. Then my worries of crud and grime getting into my starter will be over!!

Hey! So sorry for the late reply. Work and whatnot... It was on a stir plate for approx 30 hours. After that, I turn led the stirplate. However, i do know that there was some krausen, probably happend while i was at work, because there is a ring of persistent scum just above the starter. It...

But I don't remeber putting any fish in there... 🤔

Well, things got weirder 29 hours in for my starter. My starter somehow grew "eyes" that float to the top and sink back down... only to float back up again on repeat. Has anyone gotten this before?! Edit: My brother and I tasted it and we thought it smelled like sulphur, which is okay...

Yep, did everything you mentioned. Swirling, pour could water in, swirl again, and finish topping up water. I've read about cases in which the flasks basically crack (mild cases) and shatter due to expansion and then sudden contraction. I like my flasks, and I hate cleaning up, so that is...

By the way, yes, those flakes are really comprised of years of burnt grease, no joke man. Its not a lot, the flecks are small but they are definitely visible.

Oof that was really damn reassuring hahaha. I was so anxious i even got a headache out of it. Just one final question, will the years of piled of burnt grease flakes in the yeast starter cause issues in the flavour of the starter and flavour the actual beer later on?

The yeast was QCed on 23 March 2021, so very fresh. I agree that you cannot sanitize something that is inherently dirty. My procedure is to immediate pour in the hot, boiled concentrated starter into the flask (thats' where the flakes went in), then pour in chilled mineral water. This way...

Yep, I was considering that too, but my brew day is gonna be this coming saturday and considering that this starter is for a lager yeast, making a fresh starter tomorrow might not finish in time. I will have to evaluate on Thursday night and see if I should consider using dry yeast.

I use starsan for all my fermenting work. Haha truth be told, i guess my hands were weak. When I was pouring the wort into the flask with a funnel, the sides of the funnel scraped the outside of the pan which I used to boil the wort, and the scraped flakes went into the flask as I poured the...

Hey People! I've recently started brewing all grain and making starters and all, and I think I have made a huge and stupid mistake. I basically made a 3.5L starter for a lager, and I accidentally let some of the burnt crud on the pan which I boiled my DME into the flask when pouring the wort...

I thought WB-06 is more of a Belgian strain, and the closest commercial equivalent is Duvel. I might be wrong though

In that case, is the flavour, aroma and mouthfeel fixed, or will it improve in time?

The bottles were filled with Starsan still wet inside the bottle. My initial concern was that the bottles were rinsed with potable tap water the day before, drained and capped. It was only on the next day that the bottles were uncapped, tipped over to discard residual water and sprayed with...

I only allowed 5 days of carbonation because of the fear of infection. It having the ring of gunk and all. Given what you said, is the mouthfeel, flavour and aroma fixed, or will it improve in time? Also, I never know LME could cause tart flavours.

So I popped open a bottle yesterday night, and poured into a hefe glass. The head wouldn't go past 1cm in height, and the colour is quite dark, which I attribute to the fact that I brewed this from a canned LME. The problem comes in the tasting. While it is carbonated well, with small beads of...