alchemedes
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My most retarded mistake ever! :rockin:
I brewed an American Wheat recipe from my LHBS fourteen days ago. I was checking the gravity two nights days ago just to see the progress and I accidentally read the brix units instead of sp. gravity scale on the hydrometer. I checked it twice and was even surprised to see it already sitting so low, and so fast, but not thinking and casually going along in a happy stupor like a mindless automaton, I racked (without sampling any too..) into a keg and force carbed thinking I was good to go. Idiot.
Of course, today when I went to lower the pressure down to a 5psi serving range and pour myself up a refreshing glass of beer, I was unaware of the terrible surprise of the sickly sweet (not in a good way) liquid I had just ingested. It was not good, not terrible, but not good at all. The most green beer I have ever tasted, obviously. Like a glass of dissolved malts. At first, I was at a loss as to what had happened until I did another gravity check after having let a sample decarb in the glass vile. My gravity reading was at 1.020. I thought, wtf!? At this point, it finally dawned on me what had happened. Yep.
Ok, after admitting my moronic mistake too all of you, is there any way at all to save this 5gal batch of beer? Any way at all?
I brewed an American Wheat recipe from my LHBS fourteen days ago. I was checking the gravity two nights days ago just to see the progress and I accidentally read the brix units instead of sp. gravity scale on the hydrometer. I checked it twice and was even surprised to see it already sitting so low, and so fast, but not thinking and casually going along in a happy stupor like a mindless automaton, I racked (without sampling any too..) into a keg and force carbed thinking I was good to go. Idiot.
Of course, today when I went to lower the pressure down to a 5psi serving range and pour myself up a refreshing glass of beer, I was unaware of the terrible surprise of the sickly sweet (not in a good way) liquid I had just ingested. It was not good, not terrible, but not good at all. The most green beer I have ever tasted, obviously. Like a glass of dissolved malts. At first, I was at a loss as to what had happened until I did another gravity check after having let a sample decarb in the glass vile. My gravity reading was at 1.020. I thought, wtf!? At this point, it finally dawned on me what had happened. Yep.
Ok, after admitting my moronic mistake too all of you, is there any way at all to save this 5gal batch of beer? Any way at all?