Recent content by All.Hopped.Up

I think it must be down to my new mill. I used to crack my grain with a corona mill by hand and recently upgraded to a barley crusher. It didn't really occur to me that the mill would be the culprit, as I feel like I am crushing the grain less. However, reading around I have discovered that if...

I picked up a fresh wort kit this afternoon which I will put down to test this theory.

I might increase the spacing in my mill and skip the sparge on the next batch. I feel like this is probably a prime candidate for the cause. I used to use a corona mill and hand crack everything, I guess the new mill is the variable I hadn't really considered.

I am thinking I might replace all of the beer and gas lines on Monday and see if that helps. I just stripped and rebuilt the kegs before filling them so it must be something in the O2 lines perhaps?

Thanks Luggy. I have been pulling my hair out over this for months and I feel like I have re-examined all of my processes and I am still getting nowhere.

Barnyard with a slight bitter after taste. The beer looks, smells and tastes fine until the after taste hits. I haven't experienced any adverse effects from drinking it, other than bitter disappointment. :unsure: I was hoping to brew beer for my wedding which is in 3 weeks and now I feel like I...

Yes. I use foil to stop anything flying into it.

I brew outside under a covered balcony. Batch size is 23 litres. 27 litres mash. 10 litres sparge.

I stripped, cleaned and sanitized all of my equipment before the last brew and this has been in the last 4 or 5 kegs I have produced. I have even stripped down the kegs and taps ect. My process is as follows: Cleaning/sanitising my equipment with PSR/starsan. Grain is cracked using a barley...

I have been having an on-going problem of late with all of my brews, after carbonation my beers are developing a hay-like after taste. I originally put it down to old hops/malt and I have replaced all of my supplies and in the first two brews that I have produced the dreaded flavour is back! I...

Still no movement. :(

I was sitting at 18 but I have bumped it up to 21 to try and get it firing again with no love. I also gave it a little stir and 24 hours later still no movement. I dumped another packet of US-05 on it this afternoon and I am hoping that I might have some luck with that.

When you say a gentle stir, do you mean to stir up the yeast cake or just to gently swirl the liquid on top? Do you think it would be better to use sugar or some DME? Mmmm ginger flavoured wardrobe. What did your ginger beers FG finish up at?

I brewed a ginger beer from scratch on 24th of November using the following recipe based off this thread (http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/30492-ginger-beer-recipe-scratch-brew-no-kit/page-15#entry1245433): 2kg fresh ginger 4 cinnamon sticks 3 fresh chillies (diced with seeds in) 1kg dark...