Recent content by Gerrit Wessels

Thanks for the responses. I think it is pretty clear that I should carbonate after cold crashing. Is seems cold crashing makes life hard a bit harder though wrt sugar calcs... Do you think letting it get up to fermentation temp again will make any difference? And then I use that for the calcs?

Hi guys, So I am planning to add dextrose in my fermenter (I've done drops to the bottle in the past). I want to cold crash which I've previously done which seems to work quite well. Can I add my priming sugar before I cold crash or will the lower temp have some affect? If I add the sugar post...

Ok thanks. It was 1.041 which seems a bit on the low side... Our grains were not crushed very fine, could this have an impact?

Thanks for all the feedback guys, appreciate it

Thank you. I'm defenitly gonna give cold crashing a go!

Thanks, I saw a video of someone putting their hop spider inside the fermenter bucket and tapping from inside it. Is that too fine or not?

Hi guys, I will appreciate someone's help on this. So when I took a gravity reading after 2 weeks of fermentation (from the brewing bucket tap) I found large pieces floating around. I thought then to filter the beer somehow before bottling. I read up and saw that filtering is not reccomend as...

Hi guys, So I brewed from an online recipe and I would like to know what style I brewed. The recipe just says blonde ale so is it an APA or can it be an IPA, or other? I used Belgian Pale Ale and Caramel Munich 2 Malt (4.75kg and 0.25K) Mandarina Bavaria Hops (40g, 60min boil) Safale US 05...