Recent content by hyperspacey

A follow up on this: everything else I’ve brewed has been fine. I’ve done two beers, which are excellent, and two ciders, which have just gone in the bottles, and nothing is showing any signs of badness. I did however learn that you can really take any plastic component apart into it’s...

I've had the same and the beer has turned out fine; would love to know what it is though!

I'd give everything a deep, thorough clean and do another small batch first, might be fine with a proper scrub. Glass you shouldn't bin- if you're cleaning it properly there's nowhere for the infection to hide.

Yeah, I've scrubbed it all, and I'm now using VWP (a popular food and drink industry cleanser that every homebrew shop stocks) along with StarSan whenever I pack up. The advice from everywhere is "chuck all your plastic", which I probably will if this reoccurs. I'm already using glass (one...

US-05, with table sugar and boiled water for priming solution. I had a US-05 batch I’d just bottled a few days prior (completely different recipe, mind you) and it didn’t exhibit the same weird “flecks of tiny dandruff floating in watery snot” appearance. I’d have let them ride out and see but...

I has a perfectly fine batch- my second ever BIAB- that I bottled. I’ve determined I missed sanitising the jug I prepared the priming solution in, and I only ran the bottles on a 60C wash in the dishwasher- although they’d been thoroughly cleaned before this, and sanitised with StarSan before...