Recent content by Vince Burns

I was talking to a brewer at a craft brewery in Sydney and he told me they use cascade and Saaz flowers rather than pellets in the beer. They've obviously got them to put them in the glass as a decoration. Thant's because they buy them in to put them in the beer.

In a brewery they open the fermenter at the top. You can do this with a pressure fermenter too. CO2 is heavier than air, so little if any air will enter. Depending on the brewery, some only add from a freshly opened packet (e.g. the Australian Brewery). The packets they buy are 5kg bags and they...

It doesn't matter if the air gets in and dissolves in the cooling wort. Oxygen is fine at this point. In fact, this is when you oxygenate the wort so there is enough for the yeast to grow. What you want to exclude is any micro-organisms. Once oxygen has been added you then add the yeast and put...

Cold break material is good as a yeast nutrient, but the chemicals that make up a cold break are still there if you don't do a cold break, they are just in solution. What people mean is they recommend you leave the cold break material inside the fermenter during fermentation so that they are...