Questions tagged [contamination]
The introduction of unwanted organisms or chemicals into the beer. Typically, this refers to unwanted bacteria or wild yeast propagating to levels to cause spoilage of the beer. Often incorrectly called an "infection".
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Strands Like Hair in Fermenting Beer
I am brewing a schwarzbier using US-05 because I don't have a setup to brew a real lager. The OG was 1.047 and I have a current gravity reading of 1.012 after 5 days of decent fermentation at an ...
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ABV question in 5 gallon melomel batch
I started a melomel batch two weeks ago. Below are a list of batch details:
5 gallon batch
frozen blueberries (roughly 4-5lbs per gallon)
18.5 lbs of honey (raw, unpasteurized honey from my fathers ...