Well, just bottled the brewing buddy's Dunkelweisse, really shouldn't have... this batch has been a disaster. It was his first AG, my third, and first AG wheat beer for both. We must have used the wrong mill at the LHBS or something, or maybe the too-high temps at the beginning of the mash killed it, cause the efficiency was like 38%... 1.030 instead of 1.057 or so. Okay, whatever, it'll be weak. So into the carboy it goes, forms a bit of a krausen the next day, then settles down real quick. Hmm, I think, I wonder if that's okay. But I figured, eh, don't worry, relax!
So today we take a reading as we siphon into the bottling bucket, 2 weeks after brewing, and damn, the gravity is 1.025!! From 1.030 to 1.025 in 2 weeks? Uh oh. FG should be like 1.007. Sooo... I'm like, crap! What do we do? We decided to go ahead and bottle it, since all the equipment was set up and we'd already siphoned it... so now I'm sitting here wondering when the bottles are going to start exploding. Sigh. Plus he tossed a new pack of yeast along with the priming sugar into the bottling bucket, so that'll probably just make it worse, right?
I'm seriously thinking about uncapping them all tomorrow and putting some sanitized balloons over the mouth of each bottle. That'd at least prevent a trip to the hospital, right?
So today we take a reading as we siphon into the bottling bucket, 2 weeks after brewing, and damn, the gravity is 1.025!! From 1.030 to 1.025 in 2 weeks? Uh oh. FG should be like 1.007. Sooo... I'm like, crap! What do we do? We decided to go ahead and bottle it, since all the equipment was set up and we'd already siphoned it... so now I'm sitting here wondering when the bottles are going to start exploding. Sigh. Plus he tossed a new pack of yeast along with the priming sugar into the bottling bucket, so that'll probably just make it worse, right?
I'm seriously thinking about uncapping them all tomorrow and putting some sanitized balloons over the mouth of each bottle. That'd at least prevent a trip to the hospital, right?