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Hi Guys! I'm selling my Home Brew Setup as i'm getting out of the game due to life stuff. Everything is pickup in hoppers crossing, Melbourne, Vic. Email me at [email protected] if you are interested in something. Complete Kegerator Setup...

For Star san, after you've cleaned the fermenter with sodium percarb or your choice of cleaner and rinsed all the cleaner out - dilute 1.5 ml of star san per litre of water. you can either fill the fermenter and use the appropriate amount of star san, or fill a spray bottle and make sure you...

Cheers Goat chop and Manticle, I spent two years trying to figure this out brewing every week, i got advice from proffesional brewers and many home brewers, i talked to people that were 60 years old that had been brewing since they were 15 (yes 15) who had also never had an infection but they...

I want to say Mould and also to do with the bad water, when we were moving out i noticed the mould was coming through the wall and eating our cupboards!

Hey Nizmoose! After reading your thread there's a couple pieces of advice i may be able to offer that will hopefully help. I have given up on dry yeast, especially us-05 as I found i always have a similar off flavour to every brew made with it (rehydrated or sprinkled straight on doesn't...

Hi Guys, It's been almost 2 years since i started having my problems, i never gave up and brewed at least once a week. The house i was living in had terrible water from old piping, a rising damp and mould growing in the walls. I got rid of ALL my equipment. Moved house when the wife and i...

It was just some extract and water. And I'm in Footscray up the road from grain and grape :/

So i left a few glasses of wort in glasses that i'd sanitised with star san and then covered with glad wrap around the house and one outside. After a few hours they had all developed a sediment layer like picture 1, I assume this is just normal and the sugar is settling. over the first two...

Makes me feel a little more sane knowing there are others that have had this same problem. Stakka82 seems to have been dealing with the same issue i have been dealing with and has completely hit the nail on the head with his description of the taste and characteristics of the problem. Though it...

Hey Tim, Haven't brewed anything for a couple weeks, just taking some time to consider the different options. Soon i'll do the wort test by leaving a few bowls of fresh wort out around the house, and i am planning to get a steam cleaner and blast the whole place.

Cheers Mate, Gonna try a few different things early next week to see if i can solve the issue.

We did a double batch at my mates place, his turned out great and mine turned out drab at my place and if anything he's way more relaxed on the cleaning and sanitizing than me. so i agree i've definitely ruled out equipment and process. I get that brewing is a very forgiving process from the...

Yeah i've had a few guys tell me that they brewed and fermented at a mates place for 6 months and then started brewing at their place again and the problem was gone. I actually went to a brew club meeting last night and got a few guys to give it a sniff and taste. One guy who's actually the guy...

Hey Mate i really appreciate the help but i have brewed at other mates houses and then fermented at home and have tried in 4 different fridges and 3 different spots in the house. :/ A couple guys have suggested nuking my equipment with 90% water, 5% bleach 5% vinegar, but i fail to see how...

I have done this and it still came out shit, I took my fridge that had just been bleach bombed and an almost new fermenter to my mates place and fermented there, still got the same problem. I'm guessing i should have bleach bombed the fridge and fermenter over ther or done as Markbeer has...

I do 15 litres and use either a whole pack of dry or liquid yeast. Lag time not 100% sure as I usually pitch early evening say 7pm and by the next morning it's cranking

sounds like a plan

The smell and flavour is apparent after 24 hours of fermentation starting. I can do this and yes it does halt the activity but it is already too late as the bad flavour is all through it.

i'm always sitting at 18/17 degrees.

i'm indeed a merri masher Tim, heading to first meeting tonight, will get there around 8:30. The collab brew i did was with Mattias.