BillTheSlink
Well-Known Member
It's done, finally.. I worker my butt off last night washing all the new stuff so I'd just have to sanitize today and brew. I was up until 4:30 am.
Here's the recipe:
Hefe Weizen Northern Brewer
All in sixty minuet boil:
1 lbs Dry Wheat extract
6 lbs Wheat Liquid extract
.80 oz sterling hops (originally called for 1 oz, But I thought I could do a full boil) {I'll explain}.
Wyeast #3333 German Wheat
First off Northern Brewer said I was getting a 7 1/2 gal pot. Well, no way. With six gallons it's an inch from the rim. So I boiled but poured off about 1 and a half gallon in sanitized buckets.
Then I carefully stirred in everything. Turned the LP back on and almost had a catastrophic boil over. The hops formed a green slime and it raised about a foot and a half. What I don't understand is I was told to be ready with a spray bottle of water to knock this down. Well as it just started and I sprayed; it was as if it exploded. Was I told wrong?
Just as it hit the brim I cut the gas and the boil collapsed and the hop film sank. Flakes would be seen during the boil, but no more hop film is this OK?
I then chilled it with the wort chiller, and put in the glass carboy. My temp was just under 80 degrees by the time I topped off to 5 gallon. I took an OG reading which is another question. Corrected for temp it was 1.042. Northern predicted 1.049 and BeerSmith even higher at 1.052, but was BeerSmith was planned with a full boil, if that makes any difference. That sounds like a fairly big difference, do you not think?
Last and final question: I used the yeast starter kit with my smack pack. Instructions said to boil 1500 ml water with 3/4 cup DME and put in flask, cool, pitch, install airlock and pitch in wort in 12 plus hours. So I did, but after boil I only had 700 ml of liquid left. No problem, it bubbled in about 20 minuets and churned all day.
After cooling the worth to about 78 degrees I aerated with a pump for 30 minuets and then pitched. I didn't know though If I was just supposed to pour in the cloudy stuff or the slurry?? The cloudy stuff went in fine, but I got to looking and smelling the slurry and it smelled like the yeast I opened last night, so I got some luke warm tap water swished around and dumped it in. Please tell me I didn't screw up.
Now only clean up is left. It's all sitting in PBW where it'll stay till morning. I am dead.
Bill
Here's the recipe:
Hefe Weizen Northern Brewer
All in sixty minuet boil:
1 lbs Dry Wheat extract
6 lbs Wheat Liquid extract
.80 oz sterling hops (originally called for 1 oz, But I thought I could do a full boil) {I'll explain}.
Wyeast #3333 German Wheat
First off Northern Brewer said I was getting a 7 1/2 gal pot. Well, no way. With six gallons it's an inch from the rim. So I boiled but poured off about 1 and a half gallon in sanitized buckets.
Then I carefully stirred in everything. Turned the LP back on and almost had a catastrophic boil over. The hops formed a green slime and it raised about a foot and a half. What I don't understand is I was told to be ready with a spray bottle of water to knock this down. Well as it just started and I sprayed; it was as if it exploded. Was I told wrong?
Just as it hit the brim I cut the gas and the boil collapsed and the hop film sank. Flakes would be seen during the boil, but no more hop film is this OK?
I then chilled it with the wort chiller, and put in the glass carboy. My temp was just under 80 degrees by the time I topped off to 5 gallon. I took an OG reading which is another question. Corrected for temp it was 1.042. Northern predicted 1.049 and BeerSmith even higher at 1.052, but was BeerSmith was planned with a full boil, if that makes any difference. That sounds like a fairly big difference, do you not think?
Last and final question: I used the yeast starter kit with my smack pack. Instructions said to boil 1500 ml water with 3/4 cup DME and put in flask, cool, pitch, install airlock and pitch in wort in 12 plus hours. So I did, but after boil I only had 700 ml of liquid left. No problem, it bubbled in about 20 minuets and churned all day.
After cooling the worth to about 78 degrees I aerated with a pump for 30 minuets and then pitched. I didn't know though If I was just supposed to pour in the cloudy stuff or the slurry?? The cloudy stuff went in fine, but I got to looking and smelling the slurry and it smelled like the yeast I opened last night, so I got some luke warm tap water swished around and dumped it in. Please tell me I didn't screw up.
Now only clean up is left. It's all sitting in PBW where it'll stay till morning. I am dead.
Bill