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I have read everything I can find on this topic, but no conclusion yet.. so here it is.. My last few brews have been fermenting very dry 1.004 ish I brew allgrain, ferment in temp controlled chest freezer with thermometer probe taped to side of glass carboy. I just bought a new mash tun, and...

If anyone has some insight or had similar issues, please let me know! I brewed a blonde ale, kegged and immediately bottle about a dozen for a friend(bottle conditioned). Force carbed the keg and after a week or so tasted it. Initially thoughts were: Wierd esters and fusel alcohols... not clean...

Hello guys, so my last few beers turned out really well and am feeling pretty confident In my process, but just ran into an issue again and was hoping to get some insights. Problem: Getting harsher flavours (from what I assume is high sulfate content) on the end of the flavor profile, with long...

Hello guys, so I've brewed a lager today and have it in my chest freezer at about 50F good to go..I pull out my yeast starter and see black streaks on the bottom. I've made about half a dozen starters before and have never seen this. The rings look similar to the coil top stove I used to boil...

Hey guys so I brewed up a batch of Barley wine about a week ago, 1.102. I haven't checked the FG, but with 5 days of aggressive fermentation and a healthy yeast starter I'm fairly confident it is fermented out. So my plan was to rack to secondary on oak cubes, but the smallest carboy I have is...

Hi team! So I made me first yeast starter .. OG 1.042 using white labs Bavarian wiezen. I'm doing the shake not stir method and after a few hours I notice a metallic smell, from what I'm fairly certain is from aeration during fermentation(Which is the point I hope) so my question is will these...

So I made a few litres of sweet wort the other day and froze it.. og 1.042 with the intent to boil, cool, and pitch for a starter as needed. I will be using white labs super high gravity for the starter for a barleywine and was curious of the best approach. Now my preference is to not pitch all...

So this is the first time I have reused yeast, I fermented 2 identical 5gal batches of wort (Blonde ale of 1.060). One batch I used fresh safale05 , the other I reused White labs 001 from a red ale (og 1.062). I am also aware that one would normally go opposite way of styles, eg. blonde to red...

Hey Guys, I did my third all grain batch a few days ago, making an American IPA. Now When I received my shipment ( 2 batches, Aprox March 25) I did not refrigerate the liquid yeast. I had made up the first batch an April 2 (Irish Red Ale)(Also at this time I put the yeast for my IPA in the...