Recent content by BrewJas

Quick update - added second us-05 yeast (which I hydrated) without any reboiling of the wort. It took off quickly and attenuated to my target gravity, no sign of infection so beer has now been bottled and fingers crossed the situation has been saved!

Thanks everyone for the guidance. I wish I’d checked the yeast date but ordered a week before use so didn’t think of checking and haven’t raked through the bin to find it. Still no activity 12 hours after my original post so will pitch yeast which arrives tomorrow and see how it goes...

Thanks - good to know all isn’t lost! I’ve done about 15 brews and never had this happen, is it common?

Looking for some advice please as I have a problem with my latest brew. In summary I think I’ve got a failed Yeast on my hands. Mash went great, hit my OG and cooled the 22L of wort down to 18C. Pitched a packet US-05 yeast straight into the FV, didn’t rehydrate (usually do but my last...

Recently brewed the malt miller kit for neck oil clone (oil for the neck) and just had my first bottle tonight. I’m really disappointed with the lack of flavour, it’s a recently nice pale ale but really lacking the flavour and aroma of neck oil. During the boil I followed the recipe to the...

I ballsed up the OG and FG calcs on the first one and lost the bit of paper with the details on the second. I’d have thought that differences on gravity would have resulted in stronger of weaker ABV rather than sweeter beer?

Left to condition for 2 weeks at room temp then chilled in the fridge. Even after 3 weeks it’s still sweet. 🤨

I’ve completed 2 All grain BIAB brews now and on tasting both they are very sweet to my palate. I’m wondering if there’s something I’ve done which would result in a ‘sweet’ beer. Both were SMASH blonde beers with golden promise malt, one with Amarillo hops the other with cascade. Based on the...

7L Amarillo Blonde 8L Cascade Blonde 8L Golden ale Total 16465

Just tasted my first home brew today after 2 weeks in the FV and 2 weeks carbonating. It was a long wait but and absolutely delighted with the results! It’s a SMASH with Pale malt and Amarillo hops, I’d call it a blonde beer by style. Blown away that I could make something this good at the...

A SMASH with pale malt and Amarillo hops

11 days into my first fermentationand wanted to check this looks normal with the little bits floating on top? I think I forgot to sterilise the sieve I used when pouring the wort into the FV and am concerned about contamination. There’s no obvious mould but just wanted to check the little bits...

Thanks Slid, I was trying to do a small batch to avoid sparging but with the effort involved I want to end up with a few beers so will need to looking it.

Hi Banbeer I aerated without yeast then tried to take a sample using a ladle but it was extremely frothed up and a complete mess using the ladle. Think I need a turkey Baster or wine thief. Not sure I understand about dead loss in the system. I have a 19L pan so did a full mash with no...

Just brewed my first ever AG brew using BIAB. Mash and boil all went as planned, estimated pre-boil gravity hit. It all got a bit chaotic at the end though as I forgot to take an OG before transferring wort to fermentation bucket and aerating it, and think I rehydrated my yeast too early...