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how long you cold crash and how long have they been sitting ? I find if I do a long cold crash some beers take 6 weeks to carb properly. I have done a couple brews with WLP001 recently and they carbed as expected after CC

I have been brewing 5 years and never had a single bomb . as long as you do the simple things it will be fine. I make sure the beer is finished and I am strict with my bottle cleaning rinse after drinking bottling day I make 2 tubs of sodium perc and submegre and soak them all for at least...

I have a 50 l with tap and dial thermometer. I use it with gas burner so got the triple base. I can’t fault it. Steel seems good quality and it hold mash temp great. I just chuck 3 towels on top of it and only lose 1 degree in an hour.

nah . the guy was a baker though and was coming from work so bought some cookies which my preggo wife demolished

so I had 4 replies to my gum tree add. on brew day last Sunday sent a few messages when I started my mash and 1 of them came and got the grain the next day , so kept the stinking grain out of my bin . and since he got it the day after it was starting to stink. but he still wanted it. chooks...

Damn it. Last night . After a bunch beers decided to a hydro test my saison that had been on a week. Removed airlock , took sample , when putting airlock in for some drunken reason decided to push it in a bit further than usual and the grommet popped out and fell into the beer. Fell straight to...

I use 1 drop in a 750 sometimes. It still is plenty carbed to me. I think 2 is good for saison or Belgians that I want high carb. But often for pale ales and stuff I prefer the carb level of 1. I should bulk carb too probably but it’s just 1 more thing to clean so I stick to drops.

I don’t have a gluten but that’s a good read. I have been doing full volume and wondered why I always needed to up the grain a little to hit og. I thought I just sucked.

I already have 2 replies on gumtree that they will take grain.

well after reading this have put an ad on gumtree looking for chicken owners who want free grain am currently dumping straight into our wheelie bin .which right now smells slightly worse than satans ******* .I think its doing its own turbid mash over summer

I’m actually drinking one right now. It’s nice. Doesn’t have the Apricot I thought it had. Some nice funk , def on the tart saison end of the spectrum. Not a huge difference from belle saison which I have used a bunch of times.

Saw in the brew shop the other day mangrove jack do a saison pouch in their craft line up now. Not a fwk, but it I have made a few of their craft pouches in the past and they all came out pretty good. Probably comes with m29 too. Would save on postage.

Do they do a wheat ? Could work.

Yep. Seal from the fwk cube. Happened to me once. I saw it fall in and decided to leave it as I figured it was sterilized when packed. Beer was fine.

I am 10 batches deep into the swap to AG after 4 or so years or extracts and kits It is a much bigger time sink but I enjoy the process and I do think the beers I’m Making are better overall. I worked as a cook for a couple years and really enjoy cooking so get satisfaction from. starting the...

We all know it’s destined to fail, but it’s not for us. Imagine LG sunk all the R & D dollars they sunk into this white elephant POS into an actual system to make real brewing more accessible. Not sleek item for your kitchen bench top , but a white goods unit to sit in your garage or laundry...

So weekend blew out a little and didn’t bottle till today. So it sat 6 days and stayed 1002. Tasted the final hydro sample before bottling and got a bit of furitiness. Apricot was My first thought. Keen to try one after a couple weeks conditioning.

Cheers. It has been stable for 4 days. 1054 to 1002 for 96% attenuation. I am pretty confident it’s done. But I can’t bottle till tomorrow anyway so it has another day to change if it’s feeling it.

So it’s been 1002 for 3 days. In the interest of keeping summer production turning over gonna call it done and bottle to get next batch on. Tastes good. Looking back thinking I should’ve pushed the temp a little more. It’s tsting pretty clean saison funk wise.

Ok to close this off. So eventually got this into fermenter and color looked fine. Weird. Next day did a batch of pale ale. All good. Go to take my end of boil hydro sample and notice the first flow out of the tap was also really dark at first Stop it half full. Tip it then open tap again...