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Hi, I've brewed a few lager beers that have unintentionally ended up being about 3.5-4% ABV due to high mash temps and poor efficiency, as I dial in a new system. I have found the beers tasted really good initially, but lost their flavour as they got up to my desired carbonation level (¬2.4...

Hi, a while back I left my brewbucket out in the rain with water almost to the top. Lid was on, airlock hole open and lid not secured. I returned to find widespread stains/corrosion on the inside of the lid and the walls of the bucket above the water surface. Photo attached. It wont come off...

Hi, plenty of these threads around but they all seem to indicate the lactic taste threshold doesn't kick into about 5% or so. I use Weyermann acid malt and can definitely taste it once it goes over about 2% of the grain bill. Its like a slightly sour candy like tang that tends to mask hops and...

Anybody every had contamination from rehydrated dry yeast ? I usually give a cup a quick boil in the microwave, let it cool to about 35C then rehydrate. I've had contaminated beers while using this method, despite my wort passing the wort stability test. Given pitching yeast is usually a likely...

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I have a very strange problem. Whenever starsan makes contact with either of my plate chillers (one a therminator), it gives off a horrible odour. Its almost as if it is reacting with the copper inside the chiller. When tap water or wort goes through the chiller, it doesnt seem to impart this...

Are there strains of wild yeast out there that meet the following criteria: heat tolerant, doesn’t expose themselves until the beer is 2-4 weeks old, don’t cause turbidity, don’t cause overattentuation, give a soapy/bland flavor and strip hop and malt character ???? Reason I...

Hi all, Everyone says starsan doesnt have an odor? But my mixture always has a chemical like odor at the correct concentration. Smells similar to taking a sniff out of the starsan bottle itself. Whats going on here? Bad bottle of starsan?

Hi, brewing a Brooklyn lager style beer (not going for an exact clone, and relying a little on my inventory). Comments welcomed :) Australian ale malt 90% Weyermann melanoidin 4.5% Weyermann caramunich III 4% Bairds chocolate malt 1.5% Hallertauer mittelfruh 60min 28IBU Hallertauer...

I've started losing batches to a strange infection. Beer tastes pretty good towards the end of fermentation, but flavour is slowly stripped to leave a turbid, bland, unfresh tasting beer by the time it is kegged. This same pattern is evident. Only visual sign apart from the turbidity is the...

Wondering if anyone can shed any light on this problem that has been plaguing me for months and months and months. If my beer sits in the line for more than a few seconds, it has a horrible metalic taste that is unpalatable. Tried many different lines, got new perlick taps, tried picnic taps...