Hi All, I have a stupid question. I’ve been merrily brewing 25-27litre batches with mixed success. I’ve chucked a few batches I suspect down to infections getting in. I think the reason for these infections are either cleanliness of the spigot (I’m now much better) or pH (I now buffer with...

We seem to get loads of hop sediment when we brew. We use bazooka filters but there is always lots of mush in the fermenter before we prime and bottle. Even then, we get sediment after bottle fermenting. we are toying with using hop bags to minimise sediment. Do you simply add the hops to the...

Hi folks, we are new to this (a mate and myself) but we have started full grain mashing and brewing. We have followed book recipes to the letter and learned a lot from that batches we have done. batch 1 - ended up smelling eggy so chucked batch 2 - ended up smelling vinegary so chucked. we...