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    Head retention

    I have cleaned all my glasses out with bicarb soda and have bought two others. I got the head retention problem with both :( Although one bottle I drank the head stood up well and then I remembered I bought a new box of 24 330ml bottles. So I'm thinking that it might well be I didn't sanitize...
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    Head retention

    My bottle cleaning process is rinse after pouring, then before bottling clean with bottle brush in warm water then put in dishwasher at 70C. I think I'll add dipping in a bucket with no-rinse sanitiser. Good tip about keeping glasses clean. I hadn't thought of glasses but the goblet shaped...
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    Head retention

    On to my sixth brew now and the head retention seems patchy. My first two brews I won't talk about. My third brew was excellent and had consistent head retention. My fourth, a whitebeer, was a bit of a flop with virtually no head. My fifth whilst nice tasting usually only produced a small head...
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    Imperial vs Metric in the Brewing World

    Prefer measuring in metric but drinking in pints.
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    Saisonish

    Have drunk a few bottles now and its turned into a very nice beer. :) I think its a little under carbonated, probably I should have increased priming sugar quantity because of its higher ABV. Also I would probably drop or reduce the caramel malt the next time because maybe its a little sweet...
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    ABV 20% below estimate, add more yeast or bottle?

    Only about 12 bottles left now :( I'll post a pic when I can
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    ABV 20% below estimate, add more yeast or bottle?

    Should have added this before, but the beer turned out really terrific! :) If I'd paid a £10 for six bottles of this I'd be really chuffed. Tips from this, don't sweat the FG and trust the priming calculator.
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    Saisonish

    The FG reading remained 1.003 so I decided to bottle. The beer seems particularly cloudy in the bottle. Is that an indication that maybe I should have waited a bit longer?
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    Saisonish

    I've taken a gravity reading of the Saisonish and its showing at 1.003. This is well past the expected final gravity of 1.016 so likely to be northwards of 7% ABV. I am wondering whether to bottle now or wait a few more days as planned.
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    Saisonish

    Thanks for the comments guys. I'm brewing today :) will reduce the hop and coriander additions and mash for longer, I think.
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    Saisonish

    My fourth brew, first attempt at a Saison, first attempt at the recipe calculator and, hopefully, also the first time to use a fermentation chamber. https://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/1012547/saisonish I'm using a Grainfather but going for a bit below its 23 litre capacity to...
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    ABV 20% below estimate, add more yeast or bottle?

    Thanks for the help guys. Learning things with every brew. Any recommendations on the amount of priming sugar I should use with this brew? I'm leaning on using a calculation based on 2.4 volumes of CO2 because my last brew seems a bit underprimed.
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    ABV 20% below estimate, add more yeast or bottle?

    Thanks for the replies. Brewed on a Grainfather: 6kg Pilsner malt 1kg CaraBelge Malt 500g Candy Sugar Cardinal Hops Coriander Seeds 1 packet Fermentis Safbrew S-33 yeast. Mashed at 75C for 90 minutes Boiled for 90 minutes. Fermented at 21-23 Celsius I was going for a strong Belgian type ale...
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    ABV 20% below estimate, add more yeast or bottle?

    Hi and thanks. I should have said its now two weeks the brew has been in the fermenter. I did a gravity reading Monday and today and it hasn't changed at 1.018 though I swirled the fermenter every day. The Original Gravity was 1.062 which was below where I calculated it should have been, I don't...
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    ABV 20% below estimate, add more yeast or bottle?

    Hi all. I am onto my third brew, a strong Belgian ale. The fermenting stopped after a week, with a final gravity giving an ABV of about 20% less than I estimated it should from all the grain I poured in :). Online calculator I used reckoned a 7.39% brew and I'm currently stuck on 5.78% Should I...

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