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How to remove sediment?

Grats on your first brew! Ultimately you need to draw beer from above the trub (sediment). If your fermentor is designed for fermenting and has a spigot, it should have an adjustable arm you can ...
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Droping beer with Brett in Carboy

Brettanomyces comes in many forms, leading to many different flavour profiles. The main three you will come across commercially are: B.Claussenii - Fruity with mild funk B.Bruxellensis - Tasty Horse ...
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Droping beer with Brett in Carboy

Brett beers can be very interesting, and aren't necessarily sour unless the source also was sour. Brett usually gives more of a leather or "barnyard" character which can evolve with longer aging. ...
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Why is lemon zest undetectable in my beer?

It's possible that the aromatics went volatile in the boil and was then gasses off in fermentation. Leaving only oils that manifest aroma at warm temps. Try the zest as a secondary addition, or a ...
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What kind of contamination shows a white film with dots in secondary?

It's hard to say what is making the pellicle. But as for your white dots, they are too uniform for an organic IMO. I would say they are just co2 bubbles trapped under the pellicle.
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Can a homebrew with a FG of less than 1.000 become infected?

Yes, a beer can still get bacterial/fungal contamination when its SG is below 1, though it will be a much less hospitable environment than higher SG beers since the available nutrients will be less. ...
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Can saison yeast use lactose?

There are yeasts which can ferment lactose, but these are not beer yeasts. Since saison yeasts are normally single-strain beer yeasts, they lack the property to ferment lactose. Bacteria and other ...
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Process and timing to detect a stalled fermenation in order to add more yeast (repitch)

The Dupont strain is a kinda special beast. We found in an experiment on Experimental Brewing that you need to open ferment it to prevent the stall. Whether it's pressure or CO2 toxicity hasn't been ...
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Process and timing to detect a stalled fermenation in order to add more yeast (repitch)

In my experience yeast gives up early when I see it drop out of high krausen / exponential growth / feeding phases in 1-2 days. It's the first sign for me to be diligent in taking readings and making ...
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Bottle Conditioning with Saison Yeast - Any adjustments to priming sugar necessary?

if people are still wondering about these results.. both of these strains were found to be S. cerevisiae var. diastaticus and contain the gene that allows them to chop up dextrins and do this very ...
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Bringing Cold Crashed Beer to Room Temperature

Regarding your question about yeast viability - it probably depends a little bit on how long you had the beer stored in the fridge, and how cold you stored it. Assuming you only had it stored for a ...
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Can saison yeast use lactose?

Saison yeasts do not metabolise lactose, therefore it can be used to sweeten your Saisons if you wish to do so. Lactose is not fermentable by Saccharomyces brewers yeasts, there are some yeast ...
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Lowering Est FG before Brew

I have consulted the Dutch homebrew forum, and apparently this yeast is indeed finicky, and also ends rather high for a Saison, with an apparent attenuation of 75% to 80%. At first it will ferment ...
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Can saison yeast use lactose?

I cannot think of any strain of brewer's yeast that will take on lactose, but as mentioned different fermentations like sours and lambics can work with lactose and its derivatives. The fact that yeast ...
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Finicky Wyeast 3724 Stall

Obviously too late to help you, but I've used 3724 extensively and never had the stall after reading an article about saison yeasts by Drew Beechum. He said that 3724 doesn't perform well under ...
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Finicky Wyeast 3724 Stall

The Saison strains are very sensitive to CO2 toxicity. Most of the CO2 produced during fermentation escapes out the airlock but some of it does dissolve into the beer. (A taste test of a small ...
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How to remove sediment?

The existing answers are hard to add to. However, making sure you end up with minimal sediment in your fermenter in the first place goes a long way in clarifying the beer. Such as using hop bags or a ...
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How to remove sediment?

I've had big problems with too much trub (sediment) in my first couple of batches but now that I use an auto-syphon it isn't really an issue anymore. Hop pellets definitely will contribute to the ...
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How to remove sediment?

You can also add gelatin to the batch before bottling. Our will cause they sediment to coagulate and settle. Then bottle using cane and a racking tip to ensure less debris. I had the same issue as ...
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