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I've had this same issue with ginger beer! I am new to this forum and brewing in general so this is just my personal experience, but here are some things I've tried: Do it in a 2 liter plastic soda bottle. Ya just start drinking as soon as it's carbonated enough, let it re-carbonate when...

Omg I love this. Honestly I've found a few in the sediment and still drank it but that's just me lolol Seconding what everyone else said: Mainly, some beer on the outside is exposed to a lot of oxygen so acetobacter can go to town and turn alcohol into acetic acid (so if you smell around the...

Hi! I usually use packaged yeast for drinks, but for vegetables and fruits I've rarely needed to add anything as a starter. Now that you've mentioned it though I want to try it. Next time I make hot sauce I'll set some of the liquid aside and see what it does with some mead and some beer.

When I make mead, it's consistently sweet or at least tastes like honey. When I make a beer with DME only, it tastes like beer. When I combine these recipes and use half honey half DME, it's consistently sour! Why is this?

I'm here because I like having yeasty friends, and because I *love* to experiment with everything in my life. I was ruined by Sandor Katz - I am less interested in sanitizing everything, and more interested in how I can create environments for microbes who will create tasty things for me...