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I'd say the bottom of the water meniscus is a tad lower than midway between 1.000 and the next division of 1.002. So that makes it a tad lower than 1.001. [EDIT]: I interpolated using the wrong value. The bottom of the meniscus it's tad higher than 0.998! Of course, Bobby is correct in post #18...

Thank you for the HU, excellent information (of course)! I found the following 2 articles: https://www.brunwater.com/articles/water-for-yeast-rehydration https://www.brunwater.com/articles/zinc-and-ro-water Did I miss any others?

Did you taste-test the beer before or at the time you bottled it? Did it have any off flavors then? That may help pointing to whether it's the fermentation or packaging (bottling) that causes the issue.

It looks like hot break! It's definitely a precipitate (it settles out in the glass), but it doesn't make sense how you'd be sucking it up using a floating diptube, as all of it should have precipitated near the bottom of the keg. You're not using your long diptube to supply CO2, are you?

Please, use a bottle brush and a (small) tub with a PBW or Oxiclean (or just plain Washing Soda) solution to clean the inside and remove any potential biofilm. It only takes an extra 10-15 seconds per bottle for peace of mind. Rinse well, of course. I always used one of those jet spray washing...

You may have underpitched... I just looked up the specs for your yeast at Lallemand's site. Link to the pdf. Pitching rate: 100 - 200g/hL Attenuation: 78-83% On the 500 gram package Lallemand recommends a pitching rate of 1-2 grams per liter. At your measured gravity of 1.075, I would lean...

Thin-wall tubing is much more flexible, and not as springy and heavy. I use regular thin-wall vinyl tubing for racking, Kuriyama (from my brew store) being my preference for clarity and flexibility. The other bonus of thin-wall vinyl tubing is that the next size (up or down) fit well into each...

These bottles never get brushed inside? Or cleaned with an alkaline (homemade) PBW solution? Same for your fermentation buckets and bottling bucket? As you know, Starsan is only a sanitizer, not a cleaner.

That! ^ Are you controlling the ferm temps in any way? If so, how?

Ouch! Sad to read this... All using fresh yeast or repitches? Can it be something harboring in the bottles?

Most people either know, or have enough sense when they are using or are around power tools, heavy machinery, cutting, smashing, demolition tools, etc. to stay well clear of them. The dangers of handling larger size glass carboys (3-6 gallons or even larger) are two-fold: A. Their dangers are...

Sorry to hear, what makes you so sure it's infected? If you haven't dumped it yet, can you post some pictures of the infected beer in the fermenter? Thoroughly cleaning (inside and out) is always advised, especially areas where bacteria and other microorganisms can harbor and hide, such as...

But the picture isn't!

Again, how do we get rid of the Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) in the main/high gravity, first runnings batch?

Aside from boiling off DMS, isn't one of the reasons to boil the wort for an hour to condense it, thus raising the gravity?

Thank you for having been such a friendly and resourceful member in our community. I'm wishing you the best of luck and success to reach your life's goals! P.S. Your analysis should remind all of us to review our priorities and life goals, from time to time. And act on them!

My emphasis in bold/red ^ That should be 0.000030 for 30mg/L. The last "0" in that is meant to show the (true) precision in relevant decimals.

Yes it is! It's helpful to include homebrewtalk.com (italics not needed ;)) in the search string. Doing so will limit the search to our site only! Correction: As @Deadalus pointed out in post #8 the prefix "site:" should be included, making the correct search string: underlet...

The (new) testing date will be stamped into neck.