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Sounds like the sugar may have settled and didn't get good mixing.

That could be it. Before I started crashing with gelatin I regularly had excess head with my hoppy brews. Dry hopping seemed to be the main culprit. The bigger the dry hop, the bigger the head. Now I crash for 24 hours and then add gelatin for 48 hours before bottling. Works great.

That's actually been my rationale for continuing to do multistep. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I've always liked it and gotten good feedback. However, I suspect I probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference if I changed. I don't really know enough about mash chemistry to make an...

So I'm finally getting around to brewing my Oktoberfest (Marzen Invasion) but since it's past March I guess this makes it a Mayzen. :) This is my 5th year brewing it to the same recipe using a multistep mash. Five years ago I pretty much plugged in the multistep mash because everything I had...

Over the years, the only infections I ever had (3 of them} were all acetobacter infections caused by fruit flies in my bottling bucket. Clean it, sanitize it and place a lid over the bottling bucket while bottling. Aceto turns your beer into gushing vinegar. Another trick if you have a lot of...

If you're going to age it a while in secondary, you don't want much headspace. Once it is done fermenting you won't have a protective blanket of CO2 when it goes to secondary. If you keg, or know someone who does, use the CO2 canister to flood the head space with CO2 to purge any air and you...

I've had the RT301WA for a few years now. Calibrated it once and it has been great. I recheck the calibration periodically and it has remained spot on. Next time I will get the long stem version.

There's a whole thread devoted to 3711. It's a beast.

Some starters will give you krausen and some won't. I've had some blow right out of the top and some not even show a bubble. Also, sometimes it happens over night and you miss it. The main thing to look for is the change in color. When it gets that lighter milky yellow color, you know it's good.

Benefits: for long term bulk aging racking to secondary gets the brew off the yeast and let's you put it in a fermenter with less head space to reduce possible oxygen exposure. Also, it's good if you want to harvest yeast from primary before you add something like fruit to secondary...

I still use US-05 for a lot of brews and most of my IPAs and APAs but I sometimes like that M44 isn't as "clean" as the 05. Even thought it's called "West Coast", I tend to like it for NEIPAs.

Here's my stove top setup. The eye hooks were already there to hang pans so I just repurposed them. I use a ratcheting pulley from my kayak rack.

Not sure of the weight but a pack is about 2 teaspoons, so 1 teaspoon is about right for a 5 gal batch.

I mentioned before (post #11) that M44 holds my personal record of an 84 hour lag time. Just brewed a DIPA (OG 1.079) with it last week. Krausen within 12 hours and FG 1.014 in 8 days. I've given up trying to second guess yeast :mug:

I like 2 or 3 oz in my hop stand for a good flavor to match the aroma from the dry hop.

I've got a DIPA crashing right now. I usually dry hop for 3-4 days then crash until it hits 36F-ish (about 24 hrs) then add gelatin for 48 hours. Turns out crystal clear. For the gelatin, I put 1/2 packet in 1/2 cup of warm water for 15 min to "bloom". Then give it a few 30 sec shots in the...

Two possibilities come to mind. One is that it may be a very slow infection that created the gushers but hasn't yet effected the flavor. Another possibility could be hop particles. I've had a few hoppy beers, especially dry hopped, that had excess head apparently caused by hop particles that act...

Some malts produce that. I get something similar in brews with a lot of wheat malts. Some people refer to egg drop soup. You can search it.

I never toss a batch unless it's infected or still sucks after months and months. Flavor can change a lot during carbonation and after. I've had brews that were undrinkable a month after bottling and excellent 6 months or a year later. Tell your buddy it didn't come out well and hang onto it for...

Do a search for swamp cooler. It's a cheap and easy way to control temp and moderate temp swing within a reasonable temperature range. In the longer run, it's worth finding a used chest freezer on eBay and a temp controller. My setup was <$100.