Recent content by Roukedou

It's alright Kerin, I asked him the same questions. I just wanted to walk you through my though. I'm quite confused, because although it's not excellent, his protocol should give some good beers, which could use some improvement of course, but still good beer. As for the yeast and the...

One vial of yeast for a 5 gal regular brew is slightly underpitched, but is usually more than enough to get a good tasting beer. Yes with some strain you're looking for trouble by not making a starter, and there's a chance that your good old regular yeast crap on you because your mash was...

Temperatures are not really controlled, but decent, and the thing is the problem appears year-long, so I don't think that's the source of it. As for pitching, he uses White Labs yeast vial directly into 5 gal batches. That's slightly underpitched, but this issue shoudn't appear on every brew...

I have a brewer friend that has a big apple taste and smell problem in his beers, and I can't figure out where the problem is coming from. He made many good beers before, but since last year, all his beers got this problem. He's doing a good aeration, tried many yeast strain, used complete...