Yep. I pretty much stopped using plastic fermentors after my first run-in with an infection. Bacteria and wild yeast can imbed themselves in plastic and you may never get it clean. I only use plastic now if I plan to dry hop & then bottle. If I dry hop a kegged beer, the hops go right into the keg.CorneliusAlphonse wrote:yeah anything plastic is the most likely culprit
i havent tried either advent calendar beer yet, going to have to play some serious catch up soon
Advent #2 Triple C IPA
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Greg do you want your bottles back? I could bring mine to the grain pickup if need be?
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Thanks Brian but no, I am phasing out plastic bottles and replacing with pop-top glass for the little I bottle.LiverDance wrote:Greg do you want your bottles back? I could bring mine to the grain pickup if need be?
Dave - I am going to need a few new buckets and all new tubing, screw trying to clean it and let's start fresh.
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I believe I have a couple of grolsch bottles if you want them?
"Twenty years ago — a time, by the way, that hops such as Simcoe and Citra were already being developed, but weren’t about to find immediate popularity — there wasn’t a brewer on earth who would have gone to the annual Hop Growers of American convention and said, “I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.” - Bell’s Brewery Director of Operations John Mallet on the scent of their popular Hopslam.
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Good idea.chicanuck wrote:Dave - I am going to need a few new buckets and all new tubing, screw trying to clean it and let's start fresh.
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Sure, I will take them. I will be at the grain pick-up on Saturday picking up my hops from Keith.LiverDance wrote:I believe I have a couple of grolsch bottles if you want them?
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Re: Advent #2 Triple C IPA
Hi Greg,
Work away has me trying your beer a couple of days late. I wanted to try the beer before reading any comments here, but sadly they are kinda similar.
My bottle gushed and overflowed upon cracking. It then roused the yeast as I poured it, and I've ended up with a yeasty mess. Darn!
I definitely get the acetobacter that was described above, quite the sourness on the go here. I didn't realize that fruit flies can be a source of that, you learn something new every night you drink beer! Very effervescent, with a thin body, another sign of wild yeast.
Do you want any more Grolsch-type bottles? I've got some that I was going to toss, they were part of my bottle collection that I've trimmed back significantly. They have some dusty mold on them, so maybe that's not what you want to introduce to the brewery!! I do have some better-quality litre flip-tops, if you'd like.
Work away has me trying your beer a couple of days late. I wanted to try the beer before reading any comments here, but sadly they are kinda similar.
My bottle gushed and overflowed upon cracking. It then roused the yeast as I poured it, and I've ended up with a yeasty mess. Darn!
I definitely get the acetobacter that was described above, quite the sourness on the go here. I didn't realize that fruit flies can be a source of that, you learn something new every night you drink beer! Very effervescent, with a thin body, another sign of wild yeast.
Do you want any more Grolsch-type bottles? I've got some that I was going to toss, they were part of my bottle collection that I've trimmed back significantly. They have some dusty mold on them, so maybe that's not what you want to introduce to the brewery!! I do have some better-quality litre flip-tops, if you'd like.
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