Recent content by Thorad

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Racked this brew yesterday and the sample I tried seems really good, so I'm not worried about how it will turn out. I'm really just curious to understand the science/chemistry that led me to have the same point drop but shifted on the gravity scale.

I thought about that, maybe my hydrometer is off by 8 points. But then my other brews should have all been wrong too. Anyway, I stuck it in some tap water and it read 1.000

I recently brewed up a brown ale using a partial mash kit from my LHBS. This is only my fifth brew, but I've been always able to hit my OG/FG within a point or two. But with this brew, I missed the OG by around 8 points. The recipe called for 1.058 and I was at 1.050. I assumed that I just...

In this case, I don't think it's yeast. These were commercial bottles (Sam Adam's etc..) that I had to clean the labels off of. After reading some more posts here, I really think it's Oxiclean residue. It looks like I did just about everything you're not supposed to do with the stuff. Cold...

I realize this an old post, but I am having the exact same issue with a batch of bottles. The majority of them have a film of small white dots inside the bottles. Some have one spot where it is more "built up", on others it just spread out across the entire inside of the bottle. I did the...