Recent content by matt s

Hi Ian, Is there anyway to add extra room for multiple hop additions to the spreadsheet? I am doing a large and varied IPA and need more room for different hop additions. Cheers, Matt

Excellent. I have never had the yeast clumping on top like that, but glad to know you two think it's looking normal. I always leave my beer in the primary for 3 weeks and then rack and cold crash. Cheers!

Does this look infected? Its at day 6 of fermentation.

Good points! I tend to just wash them with boiling water and then sanitise them just before bottling. Perhaps I should start using a brush.

I was pretty sure all the dextrose was completely dissolved. I added boiling water to a mix to make sure. Yes, in a bottling bucked. I think it tastes fine, which is why this is confusing me!

]I have these weird dots in a few of my bottles. I think they are the same bottles that had the same problem in my last batch. My last batch got the weird dots and proceeded to overcarb. What do you think it is? Here is a photo of my current batch that I noticed. Only 5 bottles are like this.

Thanks for the help everyone! Verysupple: Yes, the fact that I don't have to chill nearly as much wort is the main reason I am doing it this way, this time. I plan to make a copper wort chiller sometime in the future. For now I think a 2L block of sanitised ice should do the trick while I am...

Hi everyone, I am a bit of a new brewer, but have done a lot of reading. I just wanted to run a quick question by you all to make sure what I am doing is okay. So basically I want to do a partial BIAB. 3kg LME and 2.kg of ale malt and 300grams of light crystal malt. The plan was to do a 12L...