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Ended up ordering a new ball valve + spigot elbow. It seems like Speidel for some weird reason are using the 3/8" bspp standard for the Braumeister 10 (we use NPT here in Sweden, but maybe we're just an exception in that aspect when compared to the pipe standards of other European countries...

Went with coopers carbonation tabs, so no priming water required. Just stumbled upon: http://brulosophy.com/2014/11/13/problem-identification-or-helping-a-buddy-stay-in-the-hobby/ though, and possibly, since I've never taken the braumeister tap apart and cleaned it, that might be the culprit...

Another picture, this time from another, opened bottle. I'm getting a smell which I'm not really sure of whether it's yeast or vinegar (vinegar should mean lactobacillicus, right?); but only when smelling it in the bottle. When poured up in a glass, it smells like, well, beer. No sour taste...

So, fast forward several months, and I've bought new fermentation vessels (well, a vessel; bought an Ss Brew bucket with an ftss system), replaced the hoses, spigots, bottle filler etc. The only thing that still is in use since previously is the star san sprayer, the brewing machine (a...

Although, wouldn't heating the bottles be safer considering that bleach might not get into all pores of the bottles? (while 175 degrees C will pretty much torch anything living inside of them; temperature according to...

Tried to snap a picture of the mentioned film; it was pretty hard to get the camera to focus properly.

I might have been a bit unclear on the film; it has appeared every time during this summer at least (which is pretty much that 1.017 belgo and onwards). I did first shake it off as "it's just because I'm only brewing weizen/saison beers, and the yeasts are weird, hence the film in the top of the...

Grinding and pouring malt the same room as I am brewing in, unfortunately. Pretty small apartment, so I don't really have that much of choice when it comes to that. Did something pretty stupid during my first brew: poured ground malt into one of the fermentation vessels (temporarily, to put it...

Thanks for the quick responses! Hmm, I did though take a reading from one of the gushers, and it had gone down from 1.017 (minus a couple of points from the bottle fermentation; I've noticed that the FG goes down when adding sugar in beersmith) to 1.007, so it seems like additional sugar had...

Since I'm trying to decide where my sanitation is failing, I've added a picture of the latest brew I currently have fermenting, trying to decide if it looks infected or not (I've got a cold at the moment, so I cannot check for any off-flavors due to my sense of taste and smell being near...

So... this is my first post on these forums; and it's a long one. I have brewed about 12 batches since I got into homebrewing, and I have started noticing that I'm getting gushers; usually after a couple of months. I can trace this back to the 5th batch I made, although I do believe that I...