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Yes sours aren’t for me but I also have a session beer planned (category 01D)

That is a good looking beer

This competition draws on two distinct themes, sour and session strength beers, with a best in show prize being awarded for each. Our friends at Phantom Brewing Co. will be hosting the brewers of the best sour and the best session beers for a brewday on their shiny 12 BBL kit. We will be...

I went in my local Wilko for the first time a few weeks ago to see what homebrew bits they had. Absolutely nothing. I was struggling to work out which section of the shop they would be in, but I looked everywhere and couldn’t find anything. I wouldn’t go in there for any other reason tbh.

Mine is set to 4C but the non-lagers are a bit too cold so I might up it to 7C too. Its a keezer in the garage though so recently hasn’t even got up to 4C, it was below or close to freezing a few times recently. Maybe it needs a tube heater for the winter.

I saw a video on YouTube last week where the chap was drinking beer he made with ascorbic acid added and then he deliberately oxidised them in the bottle. They still had a lovely colour but they had an oxidised taste, one he said tasted of basically nothing, after having been very hoppy flavour...

Then you fill it with co2 before attaching it to your FV?

I do plan to dry hop but I think I’ll do like you say, while fermentation is still active.

Thanks this is helpful. How difficult is it to fill a mylar balloon?

Nice score! 👍

Thanks very much for the help! Think I’ll give the forced test a go next time.

I dry hopped for the last 5 days, after been fermenting 9 days. I didn’t do a diacetyl rest, I kept it at 20C for 2 weeks. It was at final gravity for about 3/4 days. Did I do something wrong? What should I do for a forced diacetyl test? Maybe I should do that.

Mine was in an IPA not even a lager. I wonder what caused it. No clue what to do differently.

Same here, but I never expected it - can’t taste it at all! 😂

Yes I see, so because the co2 is the keg is under pressure that would be bad for my FV as it’s not pressure rated. Maybe I could fill the keg with CO2 at only 1 or 2 psi?

For cold crashing, what are peoples thoughts on connecting a keg filled with co2 to the airlock on the FV? I’m thinking it would be the same as using a balloon, so co2 would get sucked in to the FV?

Ok call me stupid but I’m going to give it go and I’ve got the water warming up. I know there’s a chance I’ll be chucking the whole lot down the sink at some point but at least it’ll be an experiment to see what is and isn’t possible with my setup. I’ll try this one without any additions like...

The single dry hop addition at high krausen I think is what I’ll do too, to avoid opening the FV twice and if it’s still fermenting then I guess that will help remove any oxygen that got it at that point. Am tempted to add some wheat like your recipe too.

Thanks @DocAnna, I was thinking I might skip the cold crash to avoid the drawback, but I have been looking up Mylar balloons on Amazon to use like @Buffers brewery