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You'll have increased esters (which you might like) and maybe some fusel alcohols but it will probably taste ok.

Yeah that's break material. You're golden. Hope it turns out delicious!

Drilled the cap to a Simply Orange juice bottle for a grommet and airlock then whipped up an impromptu 1L batch of wheat ale in my InstantPot with Liberty and Cascade. Gravity of 13° Plato, was expecting 12. Pitched some dried Stranda. Should be tasty. Also, making myself measure everything in...

I use a 10ml serological pipette with a pipette pump. When I need to sanitize it before use, I just drop it into my gallon jug of star san and afterward I suck soapy water into it, rinse with clean water and then star san. They come sterilized but i've only ever thrown one away because I was...

I started a new sourdough culture a few days ago with a little bit of orange juice to pre-acidify and tossed in some Weyermann Barke pilsner malt to hopefully get some interesting bugs from it. It took off surprisingly quick and after the first day it smelled like a Berliner Weisse, lol. It's...

These are definitely some dirty secrets. I'm nearly OCD with cleaning my kitchen and equipment so I couldn't let anything go without soap touching it. Some of these posts make my skin crawl.

I'm in a similar boat as the OP, not really liking most commercial beers but LOVING my own. Usually I brew citrusy wheat beers with kolsch yeast or just a straight up low-hopped kolsch. Kolsch yeast can be a little vinous (grape-like) which can be pleasant. Very drinkable at 4%. Have you ever...

Today I opened a packet from Aliexpress that was supposed to be a motor speed controller for a second stir plate build but was surprised with a pair of large gold-colored hoop earrings. Dispute processed, refund incoming.

My first thoughts were also regarding minerals, but more precisely what your baseline water looks like, especially the hardness of the water and starting pH. I also see you're using Voss as your yeast. Although Voss is not the worst offender (with Oslo being the worst), the Nordic farmhouse...

After reading this I got to thinking and re-evaluated my boil-off rate which I always knew was terribly high. After I got a kettle of test liquid (water) boiling I kept turning the burner down and managed to keep it gently turning over at a much lower notch on my stove than I thought I could. I...

Is your beer crystal clear when you taste/bottle it? If not, that sharp bitter flavor is likely yeast still in suspension. I get this if I sample a beer before the yeast has flocculated out, especially with a powdery low-flocculating strain. It sometimes almost tastes/smells like sulphur but not...

Assuming your wild yeast tolerates being dried, you can easily dry it and see how viable it ends up being. Save some of the wild yeast slurry in a jar and pour the rest in a thin layer on some baking parchment on a cookie sheet then leave that in the oven with the light on for gentle heat to...

I love thermometers.

Mashed in on a small batch and fell asleep for a couple hours trying to get my toddler to take a nap. Pressure canned some of it. Pitched some experimental yeast into two-bottles-worth of wort in a flask with an airlock.

If I open a pack of liquid yeast I'll pitch half into my wort and the other half I make a tiny starter just to give the new yeast a comfy liquid home to live in. When it's done, cold crash in the fridge for a day, decant all the liquid and store the slurry in a 50ml centrifuge tube. When a new...

All beer looks darker in a glass carboy, even in a 1-gallon fermenter. Once it's in your glass it will probably look much lighter. Many things can affect the color of your beer including but not limited to ingredients, length of the boil, exposure to oxygen, hops, even different yeast strains...

Welcome to the obsession! The kit grampamark linked to from morebeer.com is probably the perfect kit to get started with. It has the cool stuff you would eventually upgrade to (kettle with spigot, Fermonster, wort chiller, it even comes with some Star San!) over the Northern Brewer kits without...

I've never liked using Fermcap because of what its made of and only used it for starters or agar plates. I'll have to pick up some 376 next time I place an order with AiH. Thanks!

I discovered my InstantPot can hold a perfect 150-151°F on the Keep Warm/normal setting so I ground up a handful of 2-row and threw it in a filter bag with some treated tap water to make a starter for literally pennies. So much fun!

Congrats on your first brew! Kolsch is my favorite :) An original gravity of 1.060 is way high for that style. Did you end up with less wort than you expected? If you followed the boil schedule exactly and your boil-off rate was too high, you can easily end up with a lower than expected volume...