I'm only new to homebrewing but for some reason my first few brews haven't been clear.. They've been a bit cloudy, not like a beer you would get at the pub.. Any reason why?
What do you mean by how's your boil? The only thing I boil when starting a brew Is the boiling water to mix up the ingredients in the fermenter!!
As I'm new to homebrewing it was a fairly basic brew.. All I did was add the 1kg tin of Aussie blonde, the 500 grams of dextrose and 500 grams of liquid malt.. Then threw in boiling water and mixed it all up.. Then I topped it up to 22 liters and put the yeast on.. It fermented for about ten days at 20-24 degrees Celsius.. From there I syphoned 19 liters straight over into my keg.. I gassed it and refrigerated it straight away, leaving it for a couple of days before trying it..
Pretty much the same process for all of my brews so far and they've all been pretty much the same in cloudiness..
When kegging beer should I refrigerate it for a couple of days before gassing it? Would that make a difference?
Are the can kits no good?
I don't use them because I'm lazy or trying to be a prick just to prove a point. I've just developed a process to make them work a lot better than usual. But I also don't use "kits" as such. Just the cans,& I add my own other stuff to make them the style I want.
I just figured out how to get different styles than the kit cans are for. Been working with my recombinant extract theory since my second brew. It works well when you learn the rules of brewing with extracts. Not to mention,learning what they basically make,then leaping off from there.
I'd like to go back & finish tweaking my good ones one last time,& have certain folks on here get together to sample mine & there similar styles. That'd be great fun & a learning experience for all concerned.
I also don't think me & yooper are lock horns or anything. We just have different ideas that work for us. But we do agree on certain hop combinations & processes. That kind of thing. We're cool as far as I'm concerned. I do have strong opinions on what worked for me that others have a hard time believing or understanding. But that's what makes this HB thing a learning curve for all. So we try to help,& I'm good with that.
You can still get good beer fermenting 2 weeks,it just may need to sit in the bottle a few months. Also your fermentation temps is what is very important to the overall character of your beer.
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