Hi I’m new to home brewing , I’ve done a few successful brews but I’ve tried doing my first stout , it’s a coopers Irish stout ! It’s been in bottle now for 6 weeks tastes nice but there is no cream to it what so ever ? Any suggestions to why this has happened would be muchly appropriated
Need some help pls
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Banbeer
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If you mean the head there can be a few reasons for that the such as the glass you are using do not wash them in any detergent at all a good wash under a tap will stop any contaminants it could be the bottles that are carrying some detergent if not fully rinsed. The other reasons which should not apply to you is all grain methods and recipes which generally add such as some Torrified Wheat, flaked Barley and other adjuncts. If time does not improve the head situation just put it down to experience and at least it tastes good but you could consider using a heading fluid on your next brew which is designed to help that exact situation usually under £2 small bottle to do approx 5 brews
I did yes
+1 on what @the baron has said about clean glasses. If you can see tiny bubbles on the side of your glass when there is beer in it your glass is dirty. Rinse your glass after washing and use a dedicated clean glasses cloth to dry it, not something you have dried the dog with after it's walk.
But if you want a head on your beer and all else has failed and you have access to the sort of syringe that come with children's medicine like Calpol, just use it to inject air into the beer and a head will form. But be careful the injection of air can displace lots of dissolved CO2 which then creates a head that will escape the glass.
Alternatively pour your beer into a serving jug from a modest height and then into your glass. But make sure the jug is bigger than the glass.
But if you want a head on your beer and all else has failed and you have access to the sort of syringe that come with children's medicine like Calpol, just use it to inject air into the beer and a head will form. But be careful the injection of air can displace lots of dissolved CO2 which then creates a head that will escape the glass.
Alternatively pour your beer into a serving jug from a modest height and then into your glass. But make sure the jug is bigger than the glass.
It has got a tiny head too it but I’d say it’s more like a lager head than a creamy one that u would get from Guineas
An Ankoù
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Six weeks in the bottle isn't that long. And it hasn't been warm. I'd give them another three weeks and see how it goes. In the meantime, get another one on the go and when you come to bottle it, reconsider whether you might want to put a little bit more - perhaps a third again- of priming sugar in the bottles. How much priming did you use, by the way, and in what volume of beer?
I used what was said on the instructions , 1 coopers carbination drop
I have put some in my pressurised keg too with normal sugar 100grams of it
They were 500ml bottles
This what it looks like
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If you are comparing your head to guinness it will never be like that as it is served on nitrogen and not Co2, however you should get a creamy head on your beers but not as creamy as the guinness, it is usually the glass problem as we have said or a lack of head retaining grains/adjuncts in the recipe
With respect to you that looks like a dirty glass, see what I said earlier (tiny bubbles on the glass wall ).
Next you don't say how you supplemented the one can contents, i.e dextrose only, brew enhancer, malt extract etc etc which can have a bearing on the head retention properties of the beer.
For information I have made up this kit with 500g dark LME and 500g GS plus a few lesser additions but it went into PB and when dispensed it had a long lasting creamy head. However when the same went into bottle the head was not as good.
My suggestion to you is to put up with what you have got in as it is, it may or may not improve with further conditioning, but start to dispense beer from the PB. You should find it resembles a draught beer more than the bottled stuff (which of course is what it is).
And if you do this kit again package it entirely into a PB.
Yes to be honest I just get a glass from the cupboard and it has been through the dishwasher
There is a good chance it is , I just normally grab one from the cupboard that has been through the dishwasher , school boy error I gather ! So basically just rinse the glass out with water and a special clean cloth to dry it , would I be better buying some new glasses that haven’t been through the dishwasher and carry on as above just washing out with water
I agree with Terry the glass is holding bubbles on the side which means it has something on it also the head looks to be made up of larger bubbles, it is hard to tell from the pic as it is small but try it in a different glass that goes nowhere near a dishwasher or detergent
In our house we rarely use the dishwasher, and so normally glasses are the first to be washed in the bowl in clean detergent water before the rest of the washing up, then rinsed , then dried with a dedicated glasses cloth, which is changed every few days or so.
And as an aside, of the kits I did, this was certainly one of the best.
I will give this a go and see how it comes out ! Thanks to every one for the advice
OK. But be mindful that a clean glass is only part of the solution. What's actually in the glass has a bigger part to play, coupled with the method of dispensing.
An Ankoù
Landlord.
Hmm. It looks just like it should look. It's not nitro-fizz. Keeping it a few weeks longer will mellow it out, but I think that's about as good as it gets.
And it looks ok to me.:hat:
Yeah...I'd be happy with that.
prog99
Landlord.
Nothing wrong with that.
btw, I've never see any proof of dirty glasses breaking up a beer head (or you need to add other grains to improve it)
btw, I've never see any proof of dirty glasses breaking up a beer head (or you need to add other grains to improve it)
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