LittleCreat
New Member
Hi all. As I mentioned in my intro thread, Iââ¬â¢ve tried brewing beer before with limited success. At first I thought it might be due to the quality of my home brewing kit. But having discussed where I was going wrong with a friend, it turns out that I may have been using too much fluid to sterilise my kit prior to brewing. The resulting beer certainly had a funny taste to it reminiscent of chlorine or something. Iââ¬â¢ve read that strict hygiene is not as essential as standard doctrine dictates. Many people practise open fermentation for example, even commercially. And as one person put it to me, they didnââ¬â¢t have sterilising fluid back in the middle ages when they brewed beer, but it was still drinkable. So what is the general consensus on strict sterilisation and airlocks etc. Essential or not?
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