infection

Hey everyone! I'm a first time beer brewer and there's a weird sludge on my bottle and the surface of the beer. Can you tell me if this is normal or if it's infected/mouldy? Thanks!

Hi there, After about 60 brews over 6 years or so I am starting to have a crisis of confidence. In my first 55 brews I had like 3 which didn't come out well, and one of them I am sure was due to poor storage of the yeast during the height of summer. However in the past 5 or 6 brews I have...

Mindful that I'm treading on a comparatively well-blogged area (-I think I've been through relevant posts without any pointers) but I feel I have a twist on the 'beer tastes metallic' situation. I've mainly been a kit / partial-mash brewer but started my first all-grain brew, a dark mild in...

Hi guys, I am about to bottle my beer. I dry hopped 3 days ago and this sediment is still on top after cold crash. Does this look normal? Is the sediment just hop dust? Thanks

So it looks like I have an infection in my fermzilla, is there anyway to remove this? It’s ruined 4/5 beers and I have tried chemclean/ sodium percarbonate/ chemclean also would it if infected everythingthe beer has touched as in corny kegs, transfer lines, disconnects, beer lines, nukataps...

Hi, I made a starter 4 days ago using White Labs WLP590 French Saison Ale Yeast, let it do its thing for just over 24 hours and then put it in the fridge for about 3 days to let it cold crash. The first thing I thought was strange is that the yeast wasn't really flocculating out like I had...

Hi all, I have just started brewing some Maple wine (adapted from a basic mead recipe. Maple syrup instead of honey. OG 1.090) Its currently in primary fermentation in a large plastic bucket. My question is: the wine is audibly fizzing, like a can of coke. Is this okay? I have never had a brew...