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Just curious to know if this might be infected as i have never had one that is. It actually tasted nicely hoppy (chinook) with a nice hop aroma smell. It tasted nothing i could identify as infection other than looks. Just wondering what those floating things are? Dead yeast or something...

I want to get some advice on how i should make my next patch from the following ingredients or if i should at all. Coopers Australian Pale Ale Extract 1.7 kg Coopers kit yeast Light DME 1 kg Sugar 400 g Chinook pellet hops 100g 30 min - 25 g 15 min - 25 g Thought about strong...

Newbie here! Just doing my first batch that is currently at the fermentation process. Started easy with Coopers Australian Pale ale and BE2. Read a lot of helpful topics in this forum before i decided to register for this and post few concerns of my own. Fingers crossed for the first...

What would be the recommended room temp? I thought 22-23 c / 71 - 73 f would be good enough for it and colder would do more bad than good.

Photo of the fermentation

It's at constant 73 f / 22,7 c. Just wondered the gravity readings, but found after little searching that it might be the co2 causing it to rise and the accurate reading could be the one where it started rising from. I actually added little less water than instructed so think i'll go with the...

I brewed my first ever batch on Sunday 24.8. made all kinds of mistakes then, but they are not what i am concerned about. Coopers International - Australian Pale Ale Brew Enhancer 2 My OG was around 1,045 - 1,040 (too foamy to tell more accurately and no test tube came with my lovely...