Recent content by Hibbs13

I wished I’d looked this up here earlier! Had the same issue, and only just switched to a refractometer. Great advice cheers!

Thanks both, I hope it was just yeast related but from a bit of reading I’ve been doing I couldn’t take the chance. I’ve added just under 2 campden tablets and topped up with wine so there’s only a couple of centimetres below the bung. I’ll leave it for a while to see what happens before I...

I’m hoping for some advise. I am brewing an elderflower sparkling wine and it’s been fermenting no problem for 6 months with a couple of rackings. But now mould has appeared. It doesn’t taste gone off but I tried racking into a new sterilised demijohn and added a campden tablet but it’s come...

Hi All! I looking into getting a decent home brew setup for some all grain brewing. The thing I’m debating is using a fridge as a fermentation chamber or potentially a glycol chiller. I know there is obviously a massive price differential and pros and cons around scale ability and space. But...

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Trying to harvest yeast for the first time from a batch I made yesterday. I’ve poured out the trub/yeast mix from the fermented and added cold boiled water. It’s settled out but all I see is water and trub. Everything I read says there will...