Total Failure!!! Where did I go wrong?........

[WalesAles]

Other avenue i would check is all equipment coming into contact on the cold side - pipework, valves etc.

Cheers Rob,
Here is my pipework, valves etc..........
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=78344

Brewing is done in my utility room, not in the beer shed.
Easy access to water, gas etc.

WA

[Robwalkeragain]

Are you grain or kit brewing? I’m talking about the pipework and equipment after your kettle, pretty much, that’s if you’re BIABing.

Other avenue i would check is all equipment coming into contact on the cold side - pipework, valves etc.

Cheers Rob,
Here is my pipework, valves etc..........
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=78344

Brewing is done in my utility room, not in the beer shed.
Easy access to water, gas etc.

WA

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Stick to cans pal, leave the grains to us big boys.....

Only kidding Wales, better luck next time you do it..

BB

[WalesAles]

Are you grain or kit brewing? I’m talking about the pipework and equipment after your kettle, pretty much, that’s if you’re BIABing.

Rob,
My grain brewing is BIAB.
I make a few Kits now and again.
My kettle is 1.7lts Tesco finest, which carries my hot water for the Kits.
I need to buy a new Induction Hob.

Stick to cans pal, leave the grains to us big boys.....

Only kidding Wales, better luck next time you do it..

BB

BB,
I knew you`d pop up on here to give me grief!
Probably Gaz next giving more grief!

WA

[Robwalkeragain]

Are you grain or kit brewing? I’m talking about the pipework and equipment after your kettle, pretty much, that’s if you’re BIABing.

Rob,
My grain brewing is BIAB.
I make a few Kits now and again.
My kettle is 1.7lts Tesco finest, which carries my hot water for the Kits.
I need to buy a new Induction Hob.

Stick to cans pal, leave the grains to us big boys.....

Only kidding Wales, better luck next time you do it..

BB

BB,
I knew you`d pop up on here to give me grief!
Probably Gaz next giving more grief!

WA

By kettle i mean your BIAB boiler, haha. Although every brewer knows that the brewer doesn’t brew before the brewer brews a brew for the brewer.

what i mean to say is, inspect any pipework you have after the boil, including your boiler tap!

[WalesAles]

By kettle i mean your BIAB boiler, haha. Although every brewer knows that the brewer doesn’t brew before the brewer brews a brew for the brewer.

what i mean to say is, inspect any pipework you have after the boil, including your boiler tap!

Rob,
Thanks for the reply!

MY BOILER DOESN`T HAVE A TAP! (OR PIPEWORK).

WA

Sent without Tapertork.

[wanus]

Hello WA.I`ve not been lurking on ere for a while so have just read this post.Sorry to hear about your drainer and the grief BB has given you

Anyway what size tog was the quilt you threw over the FV?

[WalesAles]

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Anyway what size tog was the quilt you threw over the FV?
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Wainie,
I used a Summer quilt instead of the Winter quilt. That`s where the problem must be.
I threw the cat off the quilt and there were enough loose cat hairs on there to keep a Yeti warm!

WA

[orlando]

Neither of us has had much luck of late. Identifying your problem I think it is one of two main candidates and they are related. First of all dried yeast does not need aerating, as has already been pointed out. Whisking air into the wort does indeed whisk in whatever is in the air. Now, if you have enough yeast pitched it can overwhelm whatever else is in there by sheer numbers. Problem is Chris White, of White Labs fame, has suggested pitching without hydration can kill up to 50% (see his Brewers Publications Yeast book for reference). I grant you Lallemand have recently suggested it doesn't matter but they're in the business of selling simplicity to encourage buying. Oh, by the way, yeast doesn't actually require oxygen to ferment. , it needs it for other reasons, particularly if you are looking to harvest and repitch wet yeasts and I wouldn't brew without doing it for those reasons, but I use pure O2 in a closed system to avoid the atmosphere adding stuff I don't want. I'm not convinced liquouring back was your problem either, however I would use RO water or its equivalent as your tap water may contain high levels of alkalinity raising the pH of the wort, not so good for the now potentially compromised yeast either.

[WalesAles]

orlando,
Thanks for the reply.
You (and lots of others) are always looking after me and holding my hand as I stumble from one mess to another.
Will this Water Report show anything?
https://www.welshwater.com/en/In-Your-A ... ality.aspx
Means nothing to me, but you big boys might see something!

WA

[orlando]

orlando,
Thanks for the reply.
You (and lots of others) are always looking after me and holding my hand as I stumble from one mess to another.
Will this Water Report show anything?
https://www.welshwater.com/en/In-Your-A ... ality.aspx
Means nothing to me, but you big boys might see something!

WA

Haven't looked at it, but it won't be a brewers water report, get one from wally brew, if you are really serious about water treatment. We can talk then.