Recent content by colemangis

Thanks for the response. Did your black rings look as deep as mine? Did you get any off-flavors in your first batch, even with good cleaning? Appreciate your help.

I use WhiteLabs pure pitch without a starter and everything usually turns out fine. Just take it out of the fridge 3 hours or so before pitching and shake it up a bit. Creating a starter is best though.

Duly noted. Forever. Thanks for the help.

Duly noted. Forever.

They're in town next week. Perfect.

I'll have to taste it to find out I guess.

Wow! I hope that's true for me. What a relief.

Two batches dry-hopped for over 14 days have black, along with green and brown, hop residue rings. Is this normal for longer dry hops? Please help!

I thought it could be mold but it seems to have the texture of regular dry-hop residue. Does hop residue turn black after turning brown? Another thought: this is the first time I feremented in these stainless steel vessels. I washed them out, but I know sometimes there is a black oily coating...

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I dry-hopped two batches, one for 14 and one 16 days. As usual, both fermenters have a greenish, brown line of dry-hop residue at beer level. Besides being the typical green-to-brown, some of the residue is black. I've never dry hopped for 14 days, and have never seen this. The pale ales...

Duly noted and very much appreciated! Your comments help a lot.

Cool, thanks for the input. I was worried the brew was susceptible to infection because of the leak, so I transferred. Next time I will wait until the krausen subsides. I'm concerned the krausen behavior signified an infection. Since I racked early, did I lose a large amount of yeast...

I thought my full-boil light-malt extract brew never took off due to 100% lack of air lock activity. After 36 hours I opened the bucket to see a huge dome of krausen -- what a relief. My plastic fermentation bucket clearly had a leak. Two days after leak discovery I racked to secondary. My...

Much appreciated! Everyone gave very helpful comments.