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I do it that way, and I've never had a problem, it's such miniscule amounts of sanitizer we're talking about so I don't think there are any measurable difference.

It's not that big of a problem, and agitating the fermentor doesn’t seem worth the tisk of oxygenating the fermemted beer vs the small reward.

This was Nottingham, the ones before MJ m42 and s04, so all of them pretty flocculant strains, I brew mostly brittish style ales.

I usually get pretty livid fermentations, so that seems right. I guess I'll just have to live with it it then, I transfer to bottling bucket through a spigot in the bottom, and always leave a little beer on the yeast cake so most of it should stay behind

I seem to have a recurring " problem" in most of my brews, I often get yeast rafts that don't want to fall down. This has lead me to think about doing a soft cold crash, about 7-8c for two days before bottling to minimize yeast and trub in the bottles. A few qustions: Do I need to get it back to...

I have beer that has been sitting for two weeks, and they are not fully carbonated yet. Forget the two weeks you see in kit instructions etc, it often takes a month to get full carbonation, even pressure and non "green" tasting beer.

You have multiple? I am recognized in mine by now, "oh yeah, you bought this and that yeast a couple weeks ago, how did the brew turn out?"

Check your boil off rate aswell, I had a lot of issues with low gravities in my first batches, because my boil off was way lower than I thought it was.

When you have a batch fermenting in th FC and the kreuzen has recently dropped, you raised up the temp a bit. And now you have to constantly remind yourself that no, you can't " take a FG reading" as an excuse to taste it, you have to wait a couple of days. Or that what you look forward to the...

Does this make people "smart" bottle fillers and kegerators?🤔

I think everything is brewing equipment, God wills it. Otherwise he would not have given man the mind to invent beer.

If you use something for brewing although not originally intended for it, does it not then become brewing equipment?

That actually sounds like a good idea, I'll try it if the problem remains. It looked like the plastic "beards" around the holes from drilling the plastic had softened up and folded themselves back over the holes, so I stuck a wood plant stick thorough them and scraped of the plastic bearding.

Good to know, thank you for your help. Cheers!

So I brewed the beer and it was not the best brewday ever. Apart from the yeast accident, I noticed my sparge bucket-in-bucket setup was a little slow when I collected the first runnings, then when I dunked in the sparge water it was a complete stop, had to transfer all of the grains+water to...

The yeast slush I threw away, it occured to me later I could have saved it but I was a little angry in the moment.

It was my only pack of that strain, but now I know atleast to not cold crash starters too cold... hopefully this beer turns out somewhat as I wanted it anyway.

I got mad and dumped... my mash temp when I put on the lid was a little over 68, so 68-69 mash temp and a fair amount of crystal in the grist should hopefully keep the attenuation from rising too much over 70%. Note to self: don't dial effect of fridge to max when cold crashing starters...

Anyone? I'm heating my strike water atm.

I had planned to brew a 80 shilling ale today, and earlier in the week made a starter on wlp028 edinburgh ale. Yesterday I put it away overnight to cold crash in my FC fridge that probably was set a bit too low, because when I checked it it had turned into a yeast/ wort slushie. After spending a...