Terrible beer... no head retention... help :)

[bwible]

I’m an American so forgive me. We don’t do kg.

.9 kg should be about 2 pounds? And I’m guessing this is a 5 gallon batch? You just say Munich malt. If it was dark munich, that could certainly account for the color.

You say bottle condition.

Things that affect carbonation are any kind of oil. One previous poster said he used dish detergent on his bag and that reduced head. So any kind of oil coming in contact with bottles, bottling bucket, etc.

Also the condition of the glassware. It has to be “beer clean”. Also amount of time in bottle. Equal mixing of priming sugar. Did you add one dose of sugar for the batch or dose each bottle individually. If batch priming, stir well. If some bottles are carbonated and some are not then its uneven priming.

People recommend adding wheat for head retention, you have plenty of wheat in the recipe.

You’ll figure it out.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/beeran...perts-improving-head-retention-for-your-beer/

 

[Timur]

If I may put my 2 cents in, doing a protein rest at 55°C for 20 minutes will do the trick too for your wheat dominant grist as proteinase, which is active during this rest, tends to favourably affect head formation/retention and facilitates eventual beer clarification. I'd personally start with a ferulic acid rest at 43°C for 20 minutes to ensure clove aromas in the finished product.

 

[Miraculix]

What do you guys think about this? The batch I had been looking forward to trying (Holsten Pils clone) and it has an infection? Or yeast rafts? Thanks

This looks like a spot on infection. I had exactly the same thing going on, once I had this type of infection, my beers had zero head, before all was good. These little fellows munch on head retaining proteins.

I figured out that this type of infection can grow due to oxygen ingress during fermentation, in other words, I had a leaky bucket and it looks like you have one as well.

Upgrade to something air tight, like a speidel and your problem will probably be gone.

 

[DarrenUK]

There's a whole hours podcast on head retention on the brewing network. The podcast is called "brew strong"

Its 3rd from the very bottom. Your be scrolling a while. These guys cover absolutely everything