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I get as far as bottling day. I take my sample to get a final gravity reading ... then I drink my sample ... and I'm usually quite happy with the results. I then prime my bottles, fill my bottles, seal my bottles, store my bottles in a dark place at room temp for a couple of weeks. Then when I...

Is there such a thing as having too much headspace in your fermentor? I’m wondering if that might be contributing to the oxygenation problem I’m having. I brew about 20L/5gal of wort and it goes into a 30L/8Gal fermentor bucket.

I’ve been getting a disappointing flavour shift from the sample I try on bottling day to the day I pop one open to drink. I ferment in a bucket … temperature controlled chest freezer … bottle directly from the fermentor … each bottle gets 10ml of a simple corn sugar priming syrup … I leave the...

I dropped the temp on my fermentation chamber to cold crash an Amber Ale on Friday afternoon. Dropped the temp to 1.5'C (~35'F). Normally it's like that for anywhere from 12-24 hrs and then I bottle. However, this time around life got in the way. It's now Tuesday and it's still sitting in cold...