KDM
Well-Known Member
Greetings, gang. I have just completed brew number 2, a Double Bock kit, just got 'er in the fermenter and finished cleaning up. I'm still not absolutely sure I'm reading my hydrometer correctly, would appreciate a little reassurance. I get 1.021 and shall call it my O.G., izzat correct?
Also got the temperature since I bought another hydrometer with built-in thermometer. Am I cool or what? Oh wait, it says to add .001, so 1.022 as my O.G.?
I've been told the double bock is a prime candidate for necessitating a blowoff tube, and I've been wanting to try one anyway, so here she is:
Finally, the recipe directions call for Perle hops for bittering, and Hallertauer hops for finishing. The hop packets in the kit - they're all pellets - were Crystal hops and U.K. Challenger hops. Whoops. Oh well, figuring it probably makes no great deal of difference with me being no connisseur <sp?> or anything, and not feeling like aborting the launch, I finally said RDWHAHB and blithely proceeded. Afterwards, I noticed tags on the back of the packets reading "bittering hops" and "finishing hops" . . . and naturally I got 'em backwards and added the finishing hops first and bittering hops last. At this point I'm really hoping it's a RDWHAHB moment, and thinking the worst that can happen is I don't get a double bock out of the deal. Which is okay by me, I'm not sure I know what a double bock even is. I just drink beer, I don't ask their names.
Also got the temperature since I bought another hydrometer with built-in thermometer. Am I cool or what? Oh wait, it says to add .001, so 1.022 as my O.G.?
I've been told the double bock is a prime candidate for necessitating a blowoff tube, and I've been wanting to try one anyway, so here she is:
Finally, the recipe directions call for Perle hops for bittering, and Hallertauer hops for finishing. The hop packets in the kit - they're all pellets - were Crystal hops and U.K. Challenger hops. Whoops. Oh well, figuring it probably makes no great deal of difference with me being no connisseur <sp?> or anything, and not feeling like aborting the launch, I finally said RDWHAHB and blithely proceeded. Afterwards, I noticed tags on the back of the packets reading "bittering hops" and "finishing hops" . . . and naturally I got 'em backwards and added the finishing hops first and bittering hops last. At this point I'm really hoping it's a RDWHAHB moment, and thinking the worst that can happen is I don't get a double bock out of the deal. Which is okay by me, I'm not sure I know what a double bock even is. I just drink beer, I don't ask their names.