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Thanks for the replies. The beer has about 9 months aging on the original brew. It has only been a month since I reopened and pitched the higher alcohol yeast. Not sure if the dishwasher has a spotting agent or not, we rarely use it so there could be some residual left from prior use. The...

I brewed a Belgian ale a while back and let it age for six months as usual. Once it was done aging I chilled a tester to try out. Before chilling it was clear and didn't appear cloudy even through the dark bottle. Once out of the fridge it was very cloudy, like mud almost. It poured with...

On a positive note, I have tried two bottles of my last brew as a tester; one after a week and another after two weeks. The one with two weeks aging on it was a slight improvement over the one week as far as flavor; carbonation was about the same. I was planning on aging them about four weeks...

PS, I am also using an iodine based sanitizer, is it possible that its effective shelf life has expired; it is about five years old?

My last brew was an american ale. The wort was chilled from boiling to about 80 degrees F in about an hour. The yeast was pitched at about 80 degrees. The recipe was something my local home brew store pulled off the internet. The recipe came from the BYO website, Blueberry Brown Ale. I...

This is the third batch in a row that i have had this problem with. They have come out with little carbonation, cloudy, a slight syrupy consistency, and off flavors. They all had great appearance in the fermentor with a great krausen and activity, i am completely sfumped.