Recent content by whalesniffer

Thanks for your replies. The yeast cap has long gone and the activity is pretty minimal. It's already substantially clearer than 2 weeks ago. Perhaps it's worth taking another reading and seeing if much had happened. Thanks again for your replies.

Hi, Just a quick question. I've made mead for the first time and it has been fermenting for 6 or 7 weeks. 2 weeks ago I moved it to secondary as there was quite a lot of sediment and it had slowed fermentation. I've kept it at room temp over the last 2 weeks to make sure fermentation had...

Thanks both for your replies. I'm pretty certain now that it was down t the quality of the grain. I did leave it a few months after buying the grain to make this batch. It also fermented well for about a day and then all activity stopped. So perhaps the ingredients wee not as fresh as they...

Hello. I'm new to this forum so sorry if this is posted in the wrong place. I just made a beer last night. I have a fairly good understanding of All Grain brewing but I am still in the experimentation stage a little bit. The beer I made was a dark almost scottish ale with quite a high...