fermentation

Hello everyone! My name is Chris and I am as green as they come to home brewing. Currently living overseas in a country where I cannot get brewing supplies and my first batch which is a 5 gallon amber ale has had no yeast activity since pitching and I am on day 4. The air lock hasn’t bubbled...

Evening, I’ve got a question that is bugging me and would be great if so one could clear it up it may sound stupid earlier today I took the air lock off my fermentor and a small amount of the sanitised solution fell into my wort. Will the affect my beer in the end in any way. The satanised...

Looking for advice, I'm setting up a kegerator in a wardrobe in my bedroom and want to use it for fermentation, but limit or remove the smell issue. I was thinking of using one 19L corny to ferment in, with the CO2 produced by fermentation going into a second 19L corny. I'd then be able to vent...

I'm sure this is a common question so sorry if I'm repeating! I started my wilko 30 bottle redwine kit over two weeks ago, it showed no activity for about a week, and then the airlock started bubbling away, and it's never stopped! It has slowed down a lot but was still going about every...

I got a home brew starter kit last Christmas and have been bitten by the bug ever since. I’ve got a stock pot with a 2 way valve and a bazooka hop filter and I have a bouncer filter to go from the stock pot to the fermentation vessel which is your standard plastic bucket. I have a heating belt...

Hi i am doing my first home brew. after less than 24 hours the beer was coming through the water in the air lock. i looked online and it said to change the airlock and put it back on i did this several times. I did this for the last time some nearly 24 hour ago and now there are no bubbles in...

Hello folks :) Before the kids were born (11+ years ago) I regularly made wine and beer from kits. Only last week we tried a bottle of beer that was found in a cupboard in the garage - not a great taste - but drinkable! Anyhow, the wife bought a grape vine about 8 years ago which spent 4...

Hi there, I brewed a kind of Oktoberfest/Marzen on Sunday and used Mangrove Jacks M54 California Lager yeast. I pitched at around 22 degrees which is a little higher than the recommended but after 15 additional minutes of cooling I could not get it lower (we are 8 weeks or so into a 35 degree...

Hi beer fam- still new- I did a cursory search for this topic but didn’t see anything sorry for reposting if it’s been answered. I have a Grainfather conical. My 1st Hefeweizen and I’m about 9 days into ferm. The FG is a tad higher than I like but I think I’ve gotten all im going to . So... to...

Hi there Having done about 10 all grain brews so far, there is a recurring pattern which is bothering me: fermentation always seems to take about 48 hours to start (I use a plastic FV, no sign of bubbles or inflated lid before then) and it always stops at about 1.023 or so I use an ACE...

I am a newbie so pardon my ignorance. I brewed a Beerworks Bohemian Pilsner kit yesterday and it is already fermenting well, but if smells a little sour. This may be normal at this stage? Btw, hops still have to added in 9 days. Is seems a bit quick if it has gone off, I stress it's been 24...

Hi, When fermenting I place my fermentation vessel in a "builders bucket" filled up with water and heated with an aquarium heater. I use a thermometer to monitor the temp of the water in the bath. A pretty standard set-up. Question: should I keep the temperature in the water lower, higher or...

Hi everyone, I've been making some Plum wine. I've reached the secondary fermentation stage, so I've moved my wines into two, 1 gallon demijohns. There's less liquid than I thought there would be, so I wasn't able to fill the demijohn all the way. Here's a photo showing them both: So both...

So here's what I use. It's easy and quite cheap to make. The panels are just two plywood boards (4mm and 9mm thickness) with 10mm of cardboard sandwiched between. same for the lid but top peace of ply is 12mm. The box at the bottom has two 40w bulbs in it and the temp controlled by a...