Recent content by fernando

I use spring water from the store then add gypsum to improve the hardness of the liquid and to get fuller body feeling. I instead would like to know if your beer using well water is better than the distilled water? I hear hard well water is better because it already has all of the minerals and...

Hey I love the feed back. And to be more specific I understand the need for sanitation, the sources of bad smells, and I did not mean to play down sanitation but the worrying that one gets as a beginner. As a beginner I remember hovering over my fermenter's airlock waiting for bubbles and...

Does everyone forget that beer has been around for a long time and that a lot of the sanitation methods of today are fairly recent. I have had some beer that smelled terrible out of the primary and secondary and then after a few weeks aging in the bottle was the best beer I ever had. Being clean...

I recently made a batch using wlp008 yeast. When racking time came the smell was intolerable. I went ahead and bottled the beer anyways. Two weeks after bottling the beer I drank my first beer and I almost threw up. The taste more than matched the smell. I thought that I was screwed. I tested a...