jason81
Well-Known Member
made a pale ale thursday for my first brew ever. I feel like a huge idiot right now. after i chilled my wort (under 20 min) and pooring into 5gal glas carboy and adding water to make 5gal of wort. Rather than pooring some out or syphoning a sample to take a gravity reading i held the plastic tube in place in the carboy and dropped the hydrometer in to get a reading well i dropped the tube in the carboy so now the tube and the hydrometer where stuck in the carboy with the wort. now that i think of it i should have poored it all back into my kettle to retrieve the hydrometer. But i didnt think of that at the time. didnt want to risk contamination by using something to try to get it out either, i under estimated the power of the fermentation and decited to just leave it and fugued it was fine. 3 hours later and im getting bubbles in my airlock. next morning(yesterday) primary is in full swing so i switched to a blowoff tube before i got a mess. last night it i was getting steady bubling from the blow off within a half hour i looked again and it had stopped completley and kraeusen had settled, so im thinking its either to cold (it was 67f) or i didnt areate enough before pitching the yeast (as per palmers instructions on rehydrating yeast. so i turned up the heat in the house a few degrees and went to bed.
heres the good/ bad part:
woke up not hearing any bubling (its in my bedroom)
quick look revealed fermentation was back! nice)
then i realized the sopper flew out and im missingabout 1/2 gallon of wort, dried up on the floor so i ran and got a new stopper and airlock alreaady sitting in starsan and i was concerned about how long it was exposed to oxygen for.
foung out the hydrometer broke and there was peices of it on the flook and the paper inside the hydromerter was stuck in the blowoff tube causing the stopper to blow.
what a stupid mistake!! what a waste of beer
heres the good/ bad part:
woke up not hearing any bubling (its in my bedroom)
quick look revealed fermentation was back! nice)
then i realized the sopper flew out and im missingabout 1/2 gallon of wort, dried up on the floor so i ran and got a new stopper and airlock alreaady sitting in starsan and i was concerned about how long it was exposed to oxygen for.
foung out the hydrometer broke and there was peices of it on the flook and the paper inside the hydromerter was stuck in the blowoff tube causing the stopper to blow.
what a stupid mistake!! what a waste of beer