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Hazy IPA please! Sounds incredible.

Not exactly, but it must have been infection/contamination. Once the new fridge arrived I absolutely blitzed my brew room. Pulled everything out and disinfected from top to bottom. Boiled and PBW'd all metal parts, and PBW'd everything else. Sanitised absolutely everything before moving...

Hi All, Next chapter in the story! I think that I have managed to identify the ferm. fridge as the issue. I made a nice simple smash beer and used a new and cheap bucket, fermenting in a cupboard in a different part of the house. Kegged last weekend, and have been drinking since last Thurs...

@DocAnna I thought so too, normally people seem to have a chance to drink at least some of a batch before the infection makes it undrinkable, wheras this has taken hold within a week! @samale That's a ludicrously simple test that I hadn't even thought of!! I have some pale ale malt, and a...

*just to add, I have never had a lag after pitching, fermentation has always started within 12 hours. This batch the voss was bubbling around an hour after pitching!

Hi All, It's happened again, that's four in a row. This time I'm using a brand new and meticulously cleaned bucket fermenter (and so it doesn't look as though the Fermzilla was the perp. as I suspected). I do think that I have pinpointed the point in the process where the infection has taken...

Hi All, I'm using Kveik for the first time, and have a liquid pouch of WHC Lab Voss Kveik (Ragnar). I've read so much different advice on how to handle this. It's coming up to expiration, and so I'm planning to make a starter. The pouch says that its a direct pitch, and advises throwing in...

Cheers for all of your suggestions guys, I'll take @An Ankoù up on his yeast advice, if I can improve practices across the board it can't be a bad thing. @Dads_Ale No I haven't stored kegs with Chemsan, I fill and then push out shortly afterwards. As mentioned further up the thread though I...

I thought that I might retreat into extract territory maybe for the next one to keep things simple and less time consuming until I can get clean tasting beer, and will pick up a bucket and siphon so that I can keg and bottle to compare.

Hi Guys, Cheers for your help. For chilling I'm using the immersion chiller which came with my Brewzilla, attached to garden tap. I've been cleaning this with PBW alongside my Brewzilla after brewing, then on the next brewday I give this a quick wash and soak in a bucket of diluted chemsan...

Hi All, I'm a new member on here, and a new all grain brewer. I've done 3 batches so far, and each one has been plagued by a strange off flavour/aroma. It's hard to describe, I've read through a lot of the BJCP definitions of off flavours, and can't find anything that sounds like my...