Hello all!
I have read through many of the sticky posts, and have yet to find a good answer to my questions. I followed John Palmer's How To Brew to brew a Cincinatti IPA from extract.
The instructions were.. less than stellar.. I think I made the following mistakes:
It has been >72 hours, and so far as I can tell nothing is happening.
Questions:
I have read through many of the sticky posts, and have yet to find a good answer to my questions. I followed John Palmer's How To Brew to brew a Cincinatti IPA from extract.
The instructions were.. less than stellar.. I think I made the following mistakes:
- The temperature of the wort boil changed (the book didn't mention any specific boil temperature, just to 'boil it'). It went from a light boil to a heavy boil a few times.
- I didn't sterilize the entire fermenting bucket. Again, the instructions said to fill it with 5 gallons of sterilized water. I have a 6 gallon bucket, so there was some headroom that was not sterilized.
- The book said to boil water, and then use it to mix the yeast. The water was still steaming slightly (but about 5 minutes off a boil) when I mixed in the yeast.
It has been >72 hours, and so far as I can tell nothing is happening.
Questions:
- Should I re-pitch the yeast?
- Is there a better resource than 'How to brew' that is for new brewers that will point out the problem areas (ie, sterilize the entire container.. dont use hot water for the yeast).
- Does the boil temperature matter? Or just that it is boiling.. fast..slow.. or anywhere inbetween?