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I’ve had a couple of pints of Time & Tides Spratwaffler so decided to try something similar. Says it’s Citra led but doesn’t mention the other hops so used Simcoe 50/50. Not really experimented with fruity hopped beers much but decided to use CML Pia yeast. Brewfather said my PH was 6.14 which...

I second Nick’s method

Only other thing I can think about is yeast cross contamination e.g. wild or have you done a Saison recently? Not tried brewing one yet but while researching there’s plenty of mention of using separate kit to avoid cross contamination?

Bugger no plastic bottles, but I'll keep a test sample to open in a couple of weeks to see if it's going bottle bomb. Thank you Baron, I'm going to take the plunge now and bottle it carefully. I'll report back in a couple of weeks.

I had a pint of that yesterday in the Huntsman and Horn, on the left hand pump! not a kentish lad are you Tanglefoot?

Hi Stu I had the same with two consecutive brews which were all in the fermentor for 3 weeks. I changed my bottle cleaning routine to soaking in oxi, before bottle brush and sanitising and its been ok since. Also realised that some of my bottles were deeper than the bottle brush handle length so...

It tastes ok, so if I'm careful siphoning (without disturbing the film) from the bottom and leave a good few inches a waste I can do that. I'll decant into another bucket before bottling so least chance of mixing it up while moving bottles etc. Read a few threads and it doesn't sound dangerous...

thanks Baron, I'll taste test now!

Emergency help please, about to bottle my raspberry wheat beer and it has developed a weird white head over the two days since I last checked the FG! Is it ruined before I fill 45 bottles I’ve spent hours cleaning and sterilising?

Thanks MB, gotcha and I’m surprised how quickly the colour and smell has changed. I reduced the original recipe from 2.5 to 2 kg of raspberries as it was suggested that raspberries do pack punch and I think your advice is a great idea to taste before adding all the juice. I’ll remove the fruit...

Thanks MB , I’ll give them a nightly dunking 👍

Hi All , I’ve just done a raspberry wheat beer almost the same malt bill as Dazzelknight’s but only just found this very useful thread. So any tips most welcome especially around the fruit stage in the fermentator. So yesterday (day two) I added 6x 350g bags of frozen raspberries in 6x hop bags...

Has anyone used the post fermentation raspberries for anything e.g. jam?

Thanks 2Stage I’ll look for those settings in BF 👍

I really like using them with a Party Star Delux dispenser but as others have said they are good for 2-3 brews before the metallic taste so lob them after 3rd fill. I find them easy to fill, reseal etc and such a good size, so shame they don’t last. Great if you have mates who buy them regularly...

Actually the OG was 1.044 so 69% so given the number of stupid mistakes probs got off lightly. Now defrosting the raspberries to add tomorrow. Any tips on adding the fruit e.g. would you squeeze the fruit to get more juice either when it goes in or at the end of a week or will that just make a...

Hi All Can anyone point out any glaring flaws in yesterdays brew, other than managing my first boil over then realised I’d forgotten to put the false bottom in the BZ G4!🫣 The recipe is a Raspberry wheat beer as per the attached Brewfather notes with the change being the yeast to a CML...

Hi Rav welcome aboard 🍻 I did a Raspberry wheat beer yesterday and already itching to do another brew. 2Stage is right!

Hi Dom, what was the efficiency? Is it something achievable otherwise it does point in the direction of Rod’s point. My OG is generally all over the place, yesterday 0.6 lower, which is suspect is me not being able to use a set of scales! 🫣

Same as you 👍