krausen

This batch of mead is only 1 day old but seems to have a big bubble in the middle with, I hope, krausen on it. I have made mead before but have not gotten this before. A big bubble seems to form and then pop and form again and again. I do not notice any bad smell either. Also I am using WLP 570...

So I understand that there is a longer lag time than ales when it comes to lagers, just curious if I should be worried? I pitched my yeast ~50 hours ago from when I took these pictures last night. It is aproaching 65 hours now and and used my airstone and air pump for 20 min to oxygenate prior...

Hi all, As the title says I'm hoping to try top cropping yeast for the first time but it doesn't look yeasty like pictures/videos I've seen or past beers I've brewed. It looks more like general beer head, have I missed my opportunity or is there still hope? The yeast is Wlp500 which had a...

So I prepared a 1/2 gallon starter for my Wyeast 3787 Trappist HG to pitch into my Patersbier wort. I missed my number on OG it was only 1.041, 6 points shy of target. I decanted most of the spent wort from the starter and pitched it at 70 degrees F. Fermentation picked up pretty quickly, with...

How much head space should I leave in my fermentation vessels for making mead? I know with beer I should have about 1/5 of the batch volume of space to leave room for kräusen even with a blowoff tube. I've read a lot about mead making but haven't a good idea of how much, if any, kräusen is...

I'm in the process of fermenting an AG batch and was a little impatient with my attempts at seperating the trub before siphoning to my primary... I chilled the wort with my newly made IC down to about 60 degF (just under 5 minutes) and then got a good whirlpool going with a spoon. I haven't...

I brewed up an All-Amarillo IPA two-and-a-half weeks ago, and it was a total S#!T show; forgot to oxygenate, forgot to sanitize the lid, didn't have enough hops bags for all the additions, and ended up having to ferment the whole thing at 62F. Last weekend, I had a brew-mergency, and needed...