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I was thinking the suggestion of yeast might have been to clean up the nasty fusel alcohols produced by the high temp ferment, but guessing they still need a little sugar to keep them at it.

So definitely done fermenting, sitting at 1.01. Tastes, ok, maybe a little metallic and possibly a little buttery. But I’ve always been crap at picking up diacetyl. I was brewing this up for a work Christmas break up. I doubt any of them will taste it, but don’t want to give everyone horrendous...

Thanks for the answers and ray of hope guys. Unfortunately it was indeed in a tin shed and I don’t have any spare yeast. Will get a FG, and see where it’s at. If it’s pretty much finished, is there any point popping in more yeast? Can it still clean up some of the nasties?

Melbourne got a sudden heat wave this week and I'm wondering if I should just scrap this pale ale. Or push on with it. It was a lovely mid 20ish for 4-5 days, fermenting along just dandy. Then we got smashed with this heat wave. I haven't done much brewing in summer and wasn't prepared. I was...

Wow. I’m genuinely amazed you only have one mod a what appears to be a very active and popular forum.

Guess they aren’t around Mondays or Tuesdays either?

Had exact same thing with first couple of Porters I did with Nottingham. The first one was the worst, had to pull off the airlock and sit the fermenter in the sink overnight. I reckon I lost about 3-4 litres just in foam. Keeping them temp under 20 when pitching and leaving a bit more headspace...

Hi all, good looking forum. I’ve been stalking it for a while now and thought I’d join the crew. I’ve been doing AG brews for about a year. Nothing fancy, old gas burner, 38L crab pot and a nylon bag, but I’ve turned out some great beer. I’ve been mostly brewing stouts and porters the last month...

I guess mods aren’t around Sunday’s to approve new users posts. So questions are now moot. But still happy to hear what people think I should have done.

Reckon I could squeeze the air out of this cube at Bunnings? https://www.bunnings.com.au/icon-plastics-25l-blue-tint-water-storage-drum-with-bung_p3240532

I was all set to brew up a Belgian Triple today and made sure to put a big yeast starter on early Sat morning in preparation to pitch on Sunday night. However the starter gravity has barely dropped half a point, and it looks like it has just started to get active. I haven't used this yeast...