Lurks
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It's not rocket science is it? Well apparently you can still cock it up royally because I have not one but two brews which have fire hydrant bottles and flat bottles in the same batch.
Obviously there's not enough stirring involved. I foolishly thought that if I left it for 20 min or so the reviving yeasties would churn up the tasty glucose tucker but I can only assume that in fact this stuff sinks, which results in a few bottles getting a 12-course banquet of haut-cuisine of the glucose variety - enough to excite them into distorting a plastic bottle as their swollen obese little bodies cram more yummy sweet cakes into their tiny little mouths.
So obviously we need to stir that shit good and proper, to quote the ghetto witch of harlem.
It looks like I've got most of a brew that's duff through this folly. Unless one finds a way to make flat beer palatable.
On a positive note, a later brew - a sort of variant on nelson sauvin summer ale with a tri-hop salad, is not only the best beer I've brewed but the finest beer I have tasted anywhere in the world in all my 41 years of thieving this planet's oxygen.
So I suppose on balance I could just tip the flat beer away and treat it as a lesson learned and I'm still up.
Glass is half full thinking is much easier after you've had a couple of glasses.
Obviously there's not enough stirring involved. I foolishly thought that if I left it for 20 min or so the reviving yeasties would churn up the tasty glucose tucker but I can only assume that in fact this stuff sinks, which results in a few bottles getting a 12-course banquet of haut-cuisine of the glucose variety - enough to excite them into distorting a plastic bottle as their swollen obese little bodies cram more yummy sweet cakes into their tiny little mouths.
So obviously we need to stir that shit good and proper, to quote the ghetto witch of harlem.
It looks like I've got most of a brew that's duff through this folly. Unless one finds a way to make flat beer palatable.
On a positive note, a later brew - a sort of variant on nelson sauvin summer ale with a tri-hop salad, is not only the best beer I've brewed but the finest beer I have tasted anywhere in the world in all my 41 years of thieving this planet's oxygen.
So I suppose on balance I could just tip the flat beer away and treat it as a lesson learned and I'm still up.
Glass is half full thinking is much easier after you've had a couple of glasses.