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Hi all…. It’s bottling time and here is how the it now looks in the fermenter… it’s smells ok but there is some signs of white across the top.. who is on the ok fence and who’s on the infected fence !? 😀

So, I just received my hydrometer and done a reading which is 1.005. With an original of 1.043 i make it I have an ABV of 4.99% (perfect). Thank you for the advise on the refractometer / hydrometer guys… I’d have probably thrown this batch (same as my 3rd batch) due to thinking it had a stalled...

I think those white areas may actually be my camera flash reflection. I hope they are anyway…. I’m going to leave the hops in and leave it be for a few days. If it is infected and I sample some when I check gravity with the hygrometer … am I going to die 😆😯 or will it just taste yuk ?

The yeast is safeale US-05, it came as packets of dry yeast, there was a good ferment showing in the airlock for about 3-4 days, I’ll get a hydrometer and check the final gravity, hopefully this will show that my final gravity was reached and I’ll continue to bottle as normal. 👍

Thanks for the input fireblade, it’s been in the fermenter for 9 days, I’m planning keeping it in the fermenter for a further 4-5 days with dry hops. Then I was going to try and chill it down for a day before bottling directly from the fermenter (I do not use a secondary). What do you think the...

Hi Phildo, yes I’m using a Brew Monk conical fermenter. I didn't realise the refractometer can’t be used after fermentation, lesson learned! as for how the beer looks, it’s a session IPA I’m making, using Safeale US-05

Hi Clint, I’m using a refractometer. Maybe rightly or wrongly 😀

Hi Guys, I am very new to home brewing, I’ve just thrown in my dry hops to my latest Batch and what I saw in the fermenter hasn’t filled me with much confidence about the condition of my brew!! 😢 I’m hoping somebody could look at the photographs and advise their opinion on wether or not my brew...

This is great info, there is more to this brewing than I first anticipated. I am starting to think it may be Fusel alcohols that may be my issue, As it does have a strong alcohol like burn to it. I think I need to try and get a yeast calculator looked out and pay more attention to this in the...

Thanks for the reply Stu’s Brews. I do use tap water and didn’t treat it, this is my second brew, the 1st brew I done turned out great using the same water and not treated… maybe I just got lucky. I bought my recipe kit from the malt Miller online, it came with the bag of yeast, I assumed that...

Thanks scruffy brews, I use Chem San and once sanitised with this I cannot think of any occasion when water touched the wort. Hmmm Hop burn, it does feel as though if I swallowed the beer it would burn 🔥… I’m going to let it condition in the bottle for a couple weeks and try again … I’ll let you...

Thank you for the response, I’m struggling to choose between the tastes you have advised above… could be a bit of both 😬. It’s an IPA I’m making, I pitched at 20degree C and it maybe fluctuated between 19/21 maybe 22 degree C during the fermenting process. I have had the yeast sitting in a spare...

So, firstly, thank you all for your initial responses, I have now fermented and dry hopped my beer. As I was bottling it (direct from the fermenter) I tasted a small sip of it…. And …. It tasted really bad!! It tasted chemically, with no beer taste at all, undrinkable. 😞 I’m worried it’s maybe...

Hi all, I hope everybody is doing well. I have just done my second ever home brew batch and I noticed that after the boil, when I transferred my wort to the fermenting vessel it had a few areas of oily looking patches sitting on the top of the wort. Can anybody advise what this is And is it...