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I'm getting back into brewing and I have found out that the water ph down here is about 4.0. How much of a difference will that make in my beer. I extract brew.


LW

To me this looks just like the pellicle I get on my sour beers that I pitch wild yeast/bacteria into on purpose. The bugs form that pellicle on top to limit the amount of O2 they receive. Have you tasted any of your beers after they have set for a substantial amount of time or do you go through you...

I found the source of the contamination. The bag of hops I was using was contaminated. Not sure how it happend. I noticed that the growth would show up after I dry hopped. And it did not matter if I used a hop bag or not. Are you sure this just wasn't a bad batch of hops ?? I have seen hops go bad ...

How much of a honey flavor do you get?

Well a update on this problem. After the last post on this thread I did a lot of testing off and on when i had time to find the problem. I found the source of the contamination. The bag of hops I was using was contaminated. Not sure how it happend. I noticed that the growth would show up after I dry...

i just kegged up the 10 gal batch in the video. In about 12 weeks it will be ready. If I can last that long.


lw

I feed them to the cows and donkeys

I been drinking off the self beer for 4 years now because I hve not had the time to brew. Now it is a matter of time.

http://www.lone-wolfs-den.com/beer/intime.htm



lw

http://www.thegrape.net/ and http://www.northernbrewer.com/ is the other places I buy. Thegrape has a good price on DMA and resonable shipping on it to.



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A follow up, I have started to shop around for kegging equipment. Woohoo! Here is one of the places I shop for my kegs. http://morebeer.com/search/102291 I puck up 4 reconditioned kegs from them. All 4 had pressure when I got them. I did have a problem with one of the kegs about a month later. The ...

Well that does it! I am buying some kegging equipment reall soon!!! Woohoo!! You will like kegging. Cleaning out one keg is better then cleaning out all those bottles. :) Also something I do is cut off about 1.5 inches of the bottom of the pick up tube. That way you do not suck off the bottom all s...

Well I found what was causing my odd growth problem. I plastic nipple that was used to connect my racking ball valve to the fermenter had some damaged threads on it. And no matter how hard a cleaned it still must have harbored bacteria in the damaged parts. I replaced it and I have no more problems...

Bob57702 wrote:. I saw a homebrewer lose a wonderful 2+ year old Russian Imperial Stout because of this very reason.

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2+ year old I never heard of been lasting that long!! It must have been a very hi gavity beer.

LW

Something else you may want to get is a presage gage to test your kegs from time to time. I had 6 kegs go flat on me when the seals went on them. So do your self a favor and pick up new kegs seals and pop it valves for your kegs. You may want to pick up a new lid for your kegs to. I had one keg that...

Well I have had kegged beer that was over 4 months old and it tasted fine. I age my beer for at least 2 months and try to get it to 3 months old before I tap it. From what I hear some people carbonate it with a C02 tank and drink it after 2 weeks. I have taped beer that was 3 weeks old and 4 months ...