Started homebrewing this year, in order so far I've brewed:
Tropical ipa kit 15L - Tasted okay
Own ambitious recipes, all with mangrove jacks dried yeast:
Hazy ipa 15L - Failure imo, tasted too bitter and had a cardboard taste
Belgian ale 12L - Success, tasted lovely
Brown / Amber ale with...
I batch primed and stirred for a good few minutes, I'm conscious about stirring too much in case I introduce too much oxygen.
Some but not all the bottles did start violently throwing yeast sediment around from the bottom of the bottle
Guess I've got to be a bit more careful and maybe steer...
This probably my main concern because if it's just weak bottles I will have to either drink 9 litres this weekend or transfer to other bottles
Thank you so much that's immensely helpful advice, theyve been left sealed for the day as I'm at work, hopefully when I get back the kitchen isn't a...
So do you think it wasn't done fermenting before I bottled? Maybe I was naive but assumed 1.008 was a safe bottling fg especially for this yeast but I'm still a beginner
I used Google search and the average was 5g per litre for batch priming
How much does you use?
I know it isn't but I was just experimenting really, the reason I used this yeast is because its supposed to give off banana and clove esters which is what I love about leffe. I used belgian ale yeast from mangrove jack before and it wasn't what I was looking for... So do you reckon it maybe...
Hi all,
I tried a small bottle of my leffe clone last night and when I opened it it gushed out everywhere and threw up all the yeast on the bottom, whatever foam was left tasted lovely once settled though. I moved the other bottles into my spare room, went to bed and at 5am I heard a loud bang...
How long does everyone think i should leave it until I check the FG again? I'm thinking a week tops? I added 85g of white sugar to a 17L batch
My main concern is exposure to air since my fermenter doesn't have a tap unfortunately, it's on my list of things to buy
After all this I was thinking...
Ouch! Guess I didn't cause myself any physical pain so that's a bonus!
I can see already that the bucket has swelled so I think the yeast has woken up from the priming sugar and agitation caused by me. I sanitised everything thoroughly before bottling so I'm just hoping the exposure to air...
It is a heavily hopped hazy ipa 😔 it's my own recipe I came up with just winging it to be honest.
I feel so stupid but I'm just using this as a learning curve, I certainly won't be making the same mistake again
The recipe was
11 days fermenting
Took FG 1.020, didn't take any notice of how high it is
Added priming sugar
Bottled the lot
Woke up my braincells
Cried
Took another reading
Basically the same
Cried some more
Threw everything back into the FV on top of trub
Now sitting in silence, wondering if I...
Made a starter with 1L and 100g of dme, looks good I think, smells good too 😂
First photo from yesterday and second from today, ready for a brew in a few hours
I'm doing my first Rose too, how will you carbonate yours? I don't know if it's the same as beer and was wondering what the process might be or how much priming sugar