Stuck fermentation
Stuck fermentation arises when your beer fails to ferment to completion. This may result from the use of old yeast or poor ingredients. The easiest way to take care of this problem, is to prevent it from starting. To do that, you should:
1. Re-hydrate the yeast by adding it into some water and adding wort to the yeast an hour (or more) before you pitch. This will help ensure that your yeast remains active.
2. Use an all malt or perhaps a recipe which has a lot of it, as yeast needs nutrients to remain alive. Corn and sugar lack these nutrients. When your yeast still fails to survive, it cannot reproduce. Due to this very reason, distilled water shouldn’t be used when producing beer.
Under carbonation
If you have used the proper amount of priming sugar but your beer is still flat, this may be due to the fact that you didn’t properly wash the sanitizing solution from the bottles. If an excessive of sanitizer is left within the bottles, it can kill the yeast, which results in flat beer. The only way to prevent this is to stop it from happening.
Over carbonation
Over carbonation can cause your beer to turn right into a foam disaster and on opening a bottle, spray around like you’re taking a shower in it.. It can result from these causes:
1. An excessive amount of or uneven priming sugar. You need to measure your primer carefully and dissolve it thoroughly in boiling water and allow it the proper time to cool. Before bottling, make sure to stir this into your beer.
2. Bottling your beer too fast will also result in too much carbonation.
3. Poor sanitization is likewise an underlying cause. If you allow your beer to come in contact with wild yeast, it will result in over carbonation and possibly even off flavors.
4. Bottles which are under filled can also add to over carbonation. You need to allow 1/2 inch of head space to give your beer opportunity to pressurize.
By taking the proper time to fix problems, you’ll ensure that your brew comes out great every time you brew it. If ever you happen to run into an issue, always take the time to rationalize it before you rush into fixing it. Whenever you rush into fixing a problem, you may start a different one.
You should anticipate problems, particularly if this is your first time brewing, like putting in a reflective window film on your car, you will most probably make errors initially.. Even for expert home brewers, problems will take place from time to time – which is something you’ll learn to deal with.




