Recent content by kev211

The bubbles you see are a natural part of fermentation. The tan goop is just yeast and nutrients. You will likely eventually see little floaties on the surface. Also not an infection, rather whats known as yeast rafts, which are just coagulated yeast particles that havent dropped out of...

Long time brewer here, newb at mead, but so far having a lot of fun learning all of the new stuff and techniques that normally isnt encountered with beer brewing. Here is my question du jour.... I made 4 separate batches of mead over the past week with varying honeys, fruits, yeasts, etc. Just...

Agreed with everything AlexKay said, the SMaSH beers were a great way to learn for me (especially different hop profiles). It should be stated that for the grains in smash beers you should stick with your base grains. Im sure someone has tried it, but a smash beer made with C80L would not be...

Ok, so I've read about 10 different posts on beer gas and havent found the exact question and answer that Im looking for, so heres a new one. I recently built a kegerator setup for my office. We have 3 taps (2 CO2, one nitro with stout faucet). Until recently I have been running pure nitro as I...

Ya, that will probably be my next move. We'll see what happens. Im gonna mix in k-sorb and k-meta too, hopefully that might stave off any form of re-fermentation. Will keep you posted on what happens.

Liquid. It's literally like a white haze. No funky aromas. Stays in suspension pretty well when disturbed

Im a fairly novice mead maker, but I've been brewing beer for 8 years so I know about floaties, infections, etc. But, I have never seen this, so Im looking for some information. Raspberry honey mead, made 10/20/2021 with US-05 yeast. Hit terminal a few weeks ago and has just been sitting until I...

Ok, so I brewed 10 gallons of my Christmas milk stout last weekend (OG 1.073). I split it between 2- 6 gal fermenters and pitched WLP001 from a starter into each batch. They've finished up now and are sitting around 1.022. Here's the question... I'm gonna keg those beers this weekend and brew...

According to the recipe on bells website it's 12oz for a 5 gal batch

And, fwiw hopslam contains honey, but not nearly the quantity in which op was planning on using (assuming he was making a 5 gallon batch).

How is that correcting my statement? I never said hopslam didn't contain honey, not did I say beers don't contain honey. I DID however say that it seemed like a lot.

So what's your point?

Sorry, I don't mean for this to sound rude, but I'm well aware that bubbling isn't an indicator of fermentation. That being said, it's in a chronical that I do pressure transfers with so bubbling is pretty accurate. Also, I said I've got a tilt in there that's fully calibrated. I know when it's...

Hindsight I should have done a starter, but live and learn I suppose. I think I may just try pitching new packs and see what happens, at this point Im just experimenting. My next mead Im doing with US-05 :D

Ok, that makes sense. The word wild just breeds the word infection, so I was worried I may be getting into something unwanted here. I added fermaid-k and yeast Energizer last night along with another 40 seconds of O2 and this morning I still have a lot less action than I'd expect. It's dropped a...