I've just started popping open my second brew at 2 1/2 weeks in the bottles, and I'm getting no head. Even with a fairly "rigorous" pour, I get a small bit of bubbles on the surface which quickly go away. It is nicely carbonated...
It happened on my first brew as well, and it's really annoying me.
It's not the glasses, I've tried several different methods of cleaning the glasses, and several different kinds of glasses. All of them get head with micro-brews, but none on my home brews...
The recipe I just used:
6.6 lbs wheat LME
1.5 lbs DME
1lb crystal malt
1/4lb chocolate malt
1/4lb german caraffe
1.5 oz german spalt hops
2oz mt hood hops (1oz flavor, 1oz aroma)
and 3/4c corn sugar...
OG 1.060
FG 1.010
The only thing that I can think might contribute to it after reading a bit, is that I got very little cold break on both of the brews. It took over night to get the wort cooled. I had ice water in the fermenter and just poured the wort into the ice water and put the top on, waited till it dropped to pitching temp which happened to be the next morning.
Could that solve my problems? Is it just based on the fact that I didn't really cool the wort fast? I haven't been getting infections, the beer tastes great, just no head or lacing whatsoever.
It happened on my first brew as well, and it's really annoying me.
It's not the glasses, I've tried several different methods of cleaning the glasses, and several different kinds of glasses. All of them get head with micro-brews, but none on my home brews...
The recipe I just used:
6.6 lbs wheat LME
1.5 lbs DME
1lb crystal malt
1/4lb chocolate malt
1/4lb german caraffe
1.5 oz german spalt hops
2oz mt hood hops (1oz flavor, 1oz aroma)
and 3/4c corn sugar...
OG 1.060
FG 1.010
The only thing that I can think might contribute to it after reading a bit, is that I got very little cold break on both of the brews. It took over night to get the wort cooled. I had ice water in the fermenter and just poured the wort into the ice water and put the top on, waited till it dropped to pitching temp which happened to be the next morning.
Could that solve my problems? Is it just based on the fact that I didn't really cool the wort fast? I haven't been getting infections, the beer tastes great, just no head or lacing whatsoever.