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Just bought some bleach and put a half cup in a 30l esky to soak bottles which now seems too much. I'm hoping they'll rinse out ok and not leave any residue, your hands get so slippery after touching the water and it's really hard to get off!

Just a query. I understand Star San is an acid based sanitizer which kills bacteria by vapourising them at around ph-3 if mixed to manufacturers recommendation Is it ok to mix a stronger dose? I've been using ph test strips to roughly measure potency

Cheers guys. I've just become lazy after a good run of luck. I think if you get away with something for a while you tend to become blase'. I'll definitely be cleaning now. Just bought me some new cleaners too! So now I have Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Percarbonate, Sodium metabisulfite and bleach...

I think just a short contact time of boiling water should be ok. After all, no-chill guys do it all the time into the same rated plastics

Question: Can't you simply use boiling water to sanitize? Surely this will kill any bacteria hiding in equipment, thus preventing contamination. Right? I'm just doing some reading about a few people saying you should throw away old plastic brewing gear vs those who say just clean it well. Sone...

Thanks man. I'm wondering, my brews usually have some hop matter in the cake aswell, is this a no-no?

You stuck the beers or fermenters on the bricks? Sorry man I'm not sure wich one you mean. If it's the beer you should stick one in the fridge and try. Though it would be off by now anyhow. But still, always good to learn first hand

Yep, just having the wheat beer now and I'm 90% certain that's what's happened here. I'm amazed that just trace amounts I guess stuck to the sides of the fermenter can actually make it through to strike again and be so strongly felt (looked clean. Rinsed and sanitized with Star San. Did not soak...

I'm good mate. Got a handle on the rest of it. It's just my bad habits of not thoroughly cleaning that seem to be bringing me down really Just had another pale. Even worse today. Tastes like a mushroom!

Luckily I did scrub this one with the percarbobate. I wanted to be thoroug with it because it's so delicate. 3 days in and it smells and tastes good. Fingers crossed.. Funny thing is, I've been brewing for 20 years now! So not a beginner by any stretch. AG only 18 months or so though

Well, I suppose lagering in the bottle is as good as fermenter? Can't see why not. I'm interested in reusing the yeast, never done it before. How exactly do I go about this? I'm making another lager the very next day!

Yea, looks like I need to pick up my game in the cleaning dept.. spewing cause I was relying on this batch to get me through while my lager ferments. It's gonna take weeks! :( looks like I'll be learning from this mistake for the next few weeks as I'm forced to drink them Live n learn as they...

Thanks Dan, Wow, I must be unwhittingly battling an infection in this case. I use plastic fermentation vessels and haven't exactly been great about sanitation. I give them a quick wipe over with a sponge after fermentation and stick them in the stinky mouldy shed, then spray with Star San all...

Just curious, I have a pale ale that didn't seem to show any physical signs of bacterial contamination in the fermenter but has a funky smell and taste reminiscent of a wheat beer.. it's been bottled 4 days now and is still there at this point Funny thing is, I actually made a hefe prior to...

Well, I'm now down to the last 4 bottles of this one: 50-50 unmalted wheat and pilsner malt, w/- 50gms Master foods crushed coriander seed. 25gms would have been perfect and double that too strong which gave a bitter overtone to the finished product. It's mellowed alot and fantastic now though...

If not 30% how much do you use? I've only gone as high as 10% so far. Any more just weems wrong but I really should keep going

VB fg is 1.006 and BB ale malt w/sucrose

You guys might laugh at this but I'm using this first GP trial to go for a VB style lager. I had one from a longneck last weekend and what I got from it was what I think is manly BB ale malt, sucrose, bittering hops and some sort of a yeast flavour, not sure what type but there's some esters...

How bout pilsners with GP? I'd imagine they'd probably work well with a 100% grist

Hey all Picked up some Weyerman pils malt today and I notice some of it looks a little black and musty. This isn't the greatest pic and some looked worse than this. Is this normal for new Weyerman malt?