snowman48360
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Got a Honey Brown kit for Christmas. LHBS suggested English Brown kit with two packages dry yeast and 5lb honey. Said don't use all honey. Found two recipes on line that suggested 1.5 lb honey with 3.3 lb amber LME, 2 lb Amber DME.
Added honey at flame out. Didn't use steeping bag for hops. Ran through filtered funnel to carboy. Had to scrape filter so I think a lot of hops got into fermenter.
OG 1.065.
Very large krausen in carboy. Blow off was into 4-5 inches of wter in two liter bottle of unsanitized water Lots of hops and sludge in bottom of bottle.
Racked to secondary after 1 week. Tasted great very smooth. Didn't check gravity.
Air lock water was not sanitized. No sign of pull back into carboy.
Checked secondary ferment today after 2 weeks. Gravity 1.011. Will check gravity again tommorrow. My concern is that taste was not as smooth. Slight sour after taste. My son described it as taste when wine starts to turn to vinegar.
My questions are:
- Normal?
- What went wrong? Sanitaton?
- Is gravity about right for bottling?
- Priming sugar or 1 cup honey for bottling to try to save after taste flavor.
Added honey at flame out. Didn't use steeping bag for hops. Ran through filtered funnel to carboy. Had to scrape filter so I think a lot of hops got into fermenter.
OG 1.065.
Very large krausen in carboy. Blow off was into 4-5 inches of wter in two liter bottle of unsanitized water Lots of hops and sludge in bottom of bottle.
Racked to secondary after 1 week. Tasted great very smooth. Didn't check gravity.
Air lock water was not sanitized. No sign of pull back into carboy.
Checked secondary ferment today after 2 weeks. Gravity 1.011. Will check gravity again tommorrow. My concern is that taste was not as smooth. Slight sour after taste. My son described it as taste when wine starts to turn to vinegar.
My questions are:
- Normal?
- What went wrong? Sanitaton?
- Is gravity about right for bottling?
- Priming sugar or 1 cup honey for bottling to try to save after taste flavor.