Recent content by Jarrynpitts

Yeah I've decided just to dump the batch, more trouble than it's worth.

Yeah on second thought I think I'll just dump the yeast actually, I'm not sure it's worth my time.

I'm not sure that lagers gonna turn out great, I brewed a lager at high tempretures by accident once and it turned out pretty poor. Lagers should be fermented at low temps generally, within 9-13 degrees and it's better they're cooler than warmer. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by whats my...

Well I'm wondering if anyone else has had experience with this, if it potentially causes off flavours or if the yeast will have gotten too hot and won't work. I've decided to harvest the yeast without washing it and will collect a small sample of wort from a brew in the future and ferment it...

Why?

Hi guys, I plan on re-using some American Ale yeast that's been sitting in my laundry for almost a week, I'm just wondering if becuase there's been a couple of hot days if the yeast will be cooked and unusable? or if it will be decreased in it's usability, in that case I'm happy to chuck it...

Cool. Thanks for the advice. I'll be brewing very soon and aiming for a balanced brown ale water profile so I'll post to this thread how it goes.

Yeah, hard to say really because the reading is between 0-50 so could be 0 or 50 or 35, I don't really know. I'm just gonna treat it as 0 for a brew I'm doing tomorrow, then go back to the pool shop next Saturday and get another magnesium reading and attempt to read it better (I only took a...

Yeah right, good to know. There's nothing floating around me and the water report confirmed it's more of less a blank slate actually, apart from megnesium which is a grey area becuase it was measured with 'strips' like the pH strips. The lady at the shop said it could be between 0-50 ppm of...

Yeah I use water from the fridge, which is filtered. I've been able to get a hold of a water report at a pool shop, the water report is attached, feel free to take a look. It's safe to say I can not only assume zero but can confirm there's zero salts in my water. Magnesium on the other hand is a...

The rainwater is just what I have at my house, it tastes great and it's just not really something I'd like to do to go and buy bottled water for my beer, there's not a lot of point bc the rainwater tastes amazing. It's conveiniant to use. I've had some success with finding a water report for the...

What salts and amounts do you usually add to your rainwater to get it to the pH of 5.6?

Thanks for getting in touch. My tanks are made from plastic. For my rainwater I'm wondering if it's worth buying a pH meter to determine the original pH then adding salts based off that?

Okay so it has no suphate, chloride, magnesium in it what so ever? I know that it's soft..

Hey guys, I am thinking much about adjusting my water profile when brewing however find it expensive to do a water report on my water as it's rainwater. I'm just wondering if anyone has any idea on what kind of water report a rainwater report would look like, I live in country Vic, Riddells...