Hi Guys - ive been doing my primary fermentations out in my dining room... i dont cover the fermenter with any towels or anything to restrict light into it - though it is a white plastic bin.
Should i cover the bin with towels?
Will that improve things?
Cheers!
Primary fermentation in the dark?
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delboy
Re: Primary fermentation in the dark?
Keeping beer in the dark is more of an issue when you move to extract or all grain were the bittering (alpha acids) is produced by boiling hops. Kits tend to use a chemical modified form of the alpha acids (the bittering component) which doesn't suffer from lightstrike.
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stevezx7r
Re: Primary fermentation in the dark?
Hah, I never knew that. I thought that all hops, or the AA in them are able to become lightstruck.delboy wrote:Keeping beer in the dark is more of an issue when you move to extract or all grain were the bittering (alpha acids) is produced by boiling hops. Kits tend to use a chemical modified form of the alpha acids (the bittering component) which doesn't suffer from lightstrike.
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adm
Re: Primary fermentation in the dark?
So presumably some of the mainstream breweries that offer beer in clear bottles use isomerised??? hop extracts instead of fresh hops?
Who'da thunk it?
Who'da thunk it?