craigarino
Member
- Joined
- 5/7/05
- Messages
- 23
- Reaction score
- 1
Hi There! I ve been making full mash beers for about four years, have made a small shed and kitted it out like a second home and never had a bad batch....until recently!
On grand final day i made two batches of beer, and used the trub from a batch that had just finished fermenting... they all went bad!
Scrubbed the fermenters and made some more a fortnight later, all one hundred and twenty litres went bad! I have made three hundred or so litres since then, and only two twenty litre batches have not caught this abominable plague- one was a stout kit beer, the other was a normal mash, but I used saflager dried ale yeast, as opposed to the wyeast liquid yeast I normally use!
My questions are this- could I be using the wyeast incorrectly ( i follow the instructions, but it just doesnt seem to take, do I need to thow out my fermenters and replace them ( two are brand new), Do I need to burn my shed to the ground or get a priest to exorcise it? What is the safest method to make a coopers yeast starter from a bottle of beer!
This isnt funny any more Ive got only got two kegs left and over the last four days I just lost another 50 litre batch which got the smell the next morning after brewing, and I just noticed of the three batches left, two of them have gone down while I was away overnight!
O the humanity
Craig
On grand final day i made two batches of beer, and used the trub from a batch that had just finished fermenting... they all went bad!
Scrubbed the fermenters and made some more a fortnight later, all one hundred and twenty litres went bad! I have made three hundred or so litres since then, and only two twenty litre batches have not caught this abominable plague- one was a stout kit beer, the other was a normal mash, but I used saflager dried ale yeast, as opposed to the wyeast liquid yeast I normally use!
My questions are this- could I be using the wyeast incorrectly ( i follow the instructions, but it just doesnt seem to take, do I need to thow out my fermenters and replace them ( two are brand new), Do I need to burn my shed to the ground or get a priest to exorcise it? What is the safest method to make a coopers yeast starter from a bottle of beer!
This isnt funny any more Ive got only got two kegs left and over the last four days I just lost another 50 litre batch which got the smell the next morning after brewing, and I just noticed of the three batches left, two of them have gone down while I was away overnight!
O the humanity
Craig