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johny73

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hi

drank some of my home brew last night i had a bit of sediment in my bottles lol at bottom
but i drank 4 bottles 500ml and i was merry , but the after taste was like a wine taste very tangy but it was my first attempt at brewing lol ,

was a youngs home brew kit
 
Cheap kit and probably too young to judge properly, most beers are best at the 3 month mark :thumb:

You will also have sediment as that's almost unavoidable, it's produced during your secondary fermentation when you're carbonating.

Glad you enjoyed it :)
 
If you are bottling your beer or using a pressure barrel you will always have sediment. Even if you use finings and your beer is pretty clear when it leaves the fermenter, when you add the priming sugar for the secondary fermentation which gives it the fizz, yeasts reproduce again until they've used up that new bit of sugar.

Pour your beer very steadily and all in one go, don't stand the bottle and then pour again. Stop pouring just before the sediment reaches the neck of the bottle. It's often easiest to pour to a larger jug and then serve from there.

Given a bit of maturation time, the sediment firms up and you can pour virtually the whole bottle.

If you do stir up sediment it's not going to do you any harm, but a lot of it might free up your digestive system.
 
I seem to remember doing a kit brew years ago and using a yeast that expressly gave you a good firm sediment at secondary ferment which meant you could pour out and not worry about ending up with a cloudy pint but I can't remember what they called it. was good though for bottlers. :thumb:
 
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