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Slight difference pre and post boil gravity
Q1) No chance of off flavors just from this.
Q2) Yes, this is normal. The post boil gravity will always be higher than pre boil because of the water lost to evaporation.
In your case about 12% of ...
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What to do with my (accidently) sour saison?
As a suggestion:
Heat your beer to 70 deg. Celcius (sorry, I'm metric and don't do Church-of-England units but I'm sure you can convert it to Farenheit yourself) in order to kill yeast and bacterial ...
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Off Flavors in all of my Homebrewing attempts
Grats on your first brews!
Sounds like yeast stress esters from possibly under pitching or lack of oxygen, maybe even autolysis if it's sitting in a primary for 3 weeks.
Suggestions:
Use a yeast ...
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Are there levels of contamination in a beer or is it a case that it's either "contaminated" or "not contaminated"?
First, technically all beer is contaminated, since you pitch yeast. And yes, I'd say pretty much all homebrew (and even commercial beer) is contaminated to some extent. The type and severity of ...
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Bad food in the fridge! keep the hops or toss them?
Hops stored in a sealed packet in a fridge should be alright to use - even if the rest of the fridge is "crawling" with bugs. I say this because the hops grew in the open air and since picking have ...
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I'm suspecting high Diacetyl in my beer, is it safe to drink?
Diacetyl is used as a food flavoring and is safe to ingest, It is not safe to inhale diacetyl when heated and/or vaporized, and causes popcorn lung.
https://www.fda.gov/Food/...
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Higher temperature during first two days after pitching yeast
The most "important" time for fermentation is probably while it is happening. The yeast produces and consumes things over the course of the fermenting so IMHO their is no particular "important" point ...
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Potential fat in wort, what's going to happen?
That grease in extraction fan is from volatile food grease / oils. In my experience these are not water soluable. The condensation that fell back in was most likely just water.
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Off flavours from unsanitized priming sugar
I usually dissolve my sugar in boiling water, before adding it to the bottle or kegs for priming.
I have in the past just added half a spoonful of granulated sugar directly to the bottles with no ...
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Off Flavors in all of my Homebrewing attempts
Well its purely speculation but if the off flavor is the same across three batches, and you're sure your sanitizing process is spot on, I'd say its likely to be either your fermentation temperature, ...
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Lambic blend affecting beer in fridge?
Doubtful
It is remotely possible for yeast packs to have microbes on the outside of packaging from contamination at packing time. I don't see it contaminating unopened beers though.
Most likely the ...
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Green apple taste with beer that used bucket with lid with no gasket
Generally green apple (acetaldehyde) is due to fermentation not being complete.
Did you cold crash? Did you verify that your beer was done fermenting?
It is strange that your fermenter builds up so ...
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Sterilising tips?
As Pepi noted in the comments it would take a serious infection to be noticeable in 24 hours (Just think how long it takes yeast to get going and that is supplied into fermentable at a huge number of ...
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Any way to deal with bitter taste from turbo yeast?
Turbo yeast is very aggressive and consumes almost all sugars.
Bitter is most likley from an unbalance in sweet / bitter.
Add a non fermentable sugar like lactos to sweeten and counter the bitter ...
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Beer has off flavor, sample taken while bottling tasted good
How old is it? I know from experience just a few days at warm temps like you described 80°F will make a delicate beer taste like it was age weeks.
Noticing the green bottles, light struck (skunking) ...
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A "Dusty" aftertaste in my beer
I chased a similar off flavor for years before I finally concluded it was coming from the US-05 yeast I was using. I'm not sure everyone can taste it, but it was very offensive to me. Dusty was the ...
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Help me debug my Christmas Ale band-aid flavor
Band aid flavours are related to phenols, which can only have a few possible causes.
Chlorine compounds in the wort (either residue from cleaning or as a result of using chlorinated tap water) may ...
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Consistent clove aftertaste
Clove-ey flavor in my experience is due to
Yeast health (namely- hot fermentations)
Chloramines in water
Bacteria infection
My prime bet is fermentation temps- you say you ferment at 66-68F - is ...
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Possible to de-oxygenate and de-skunk a beer?
I think that's sort of like reversing a piece of wood in a fire being burnt. The beer has gone through chemical changes- it's nontrivial to reverse them.
I'm not aware of any commercial or home-scale ...
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What could cause an earthy flavour in beer?
Unpleasant fresh soil as you describe it can be a sign for ethyl fenchol which is a water contamination issue. I don't think Willamette or any hop for the matter should lead to a result how you ...
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What could cause an earthy flavour in beer?
Earthy flavours can be caused by mold spores in the area you store your beer. They tend to occur in damp areas where the mold grow within the walls of the area and then passes a chemical through any ...
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What is Extract Twang?
I saw a new answer on here- what the hell- I'll post.
In my experience- what you're describing is typically a byproduct of old (oxidized) liquid malt extract. It gets a really cloying flavor due to ...
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Unwanted yeast flavor last 2 brews (using starter)
First thing, its not generally recommended or needed to make starters when using the dried yeast that you listed. That being said its not likely to super hurt you either.
Its likely a combination of ...
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Bad food in the fridge! keep the hops or toss them?
I wouldn't be worried to use them - they're pretty pungent little fellows and I've never seen them pick up off-aromas. If they smell good to you, they're probably good. ESPECIALLY if they're going to ...
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Are there levels of contamination in a beer or is it a case that it's either "contaminated" or "not contaminated"?
YES.
All biological contamination (infection) take time to do their thing. So yes there are levels of contamination. Acetobacter for example, can be at a range of non detectable to the palet to full ...
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How can I determine why some all-grain wort is cloudy and if I should do anything about it?
It could be many things at this point. It may just be happy yeast in suspension. But sounds more like the hot break and cold break proteins are still in the wort. They should drop out after ...
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Potential fat in wort, what's going to happen?
The worst that could happen is that it would affect head formation and retention. But you might be OK. No big deal.
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Higher temperature during first two days after pitching yeast
It sounds like it was warm in growth phase which is the time esters are mostly produced. This is bad but may not be too terrible at this point.
High heat during feeding phase (where your at now) will ...
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Higher temperature during first two days after pitching yeast
Agreed. You have little to worry about. Furthermore, Safale US-05 is an outstanding yeast with high tolerance for warmer temps. And because you did not hydrate the yeast first (or did not reveal you ...
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Off flavours from unsanitized priming sugar
In a word, no. What you are experiencing has another cause.
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