Recent content by Achilles_001

Well, the smell itself is hard to describe. I'm using a 6 gallon bucket for a 3 gallon batch, not sure if the headspace makes a difference, but it smelled a little acidic. The sample doesn't have any acid smell to it and tastes acceptable (as far as non bottle conditioned, flat, warm beer goes)...

Thanks a lot for you input Steve, I didn't do a secondary so it has been in the primary bucket for 3 weeks. I've done 3 brews so far and never has anything floating on the top like this before.

Hi all, somewhat novice brewer here. I recently brewed a small batch am american wheat beer and noticed some some white stuff floating on top when opened the container to bottle. I know wheat beers have a higher cloudiness to them, more proteins, so I am hoping that is what this is, or possible...

Hi all, new to homebrewing and I am loving it so far. At the moment I have two one gallon batches under my belt, a simple ale which turned out pretty well and an english light dark ale which is still in the secondary stage. I would like to produce a larger 5 gallon batch but I have a few...