CDGoin
Well-Known Member
OK.. so after spending a lot of time reading and re-reading things.. I of course made a few rookie mistakes in my excitement to start brewing..
Started with a Brewers Best Milk Stout, added Vanilla beans..
Now things that happened/I screwed up
1) Pot too small.. so instead of doing 2.5 Gal, my pot could do 2.25
2) Due to #1 I had to pull about 2 cups of wort (off the top) out to put in all the malt extract..
3) I left the grain bag in the whole time.. INstead of removing after the seeping time, left it in thru the whole boil.. ( Didnt read (or remember reading ) that I was supposed to take it out when adding extracts and sugars.. - DOH !! )
4) Drained wort only came up with about 2 gallons of wort.. when I added water to 4.3 gallons yet still missed my OG number of 1.056-1.061 by .04 (1.052)
Now, I didn't think that will be too bad since I did keep it to a low boil most the time.
Also I am not a fan of hops.. so I put in the Bittering hops for only 25 min of 50 min the boil called for and the Aroma for the 10 minutes called for.
So how bad did I do..? Am I going to end up with a bitter flat weak beer..?
Good thing is I know next time to..
1) Get a bigger pot
2) Pull the grain bag out.. before boiling.
Just curious what I can expect..?
Started with a Brewers Best Milk Stout, added Vanilla beans..
Now things that happened/I screwed up
1) Pot too small.. so instead of doing 2.5 Gal, my pot could do 2.25
2) Due to #1 I had to pull about 2 cups of wort (off the top) out to put in all the malt extract..
3) I left the grain bag in the whole time.. INstead of removing after the seeping time, left it in thru the whole boil.. ( Didnt read (or remember reading ) that I was supposed to take it out when adding extracts and sugars.. - DOH !! )
4) Drained wort only came up with about 2 gallons of wort.. when I added water to 4.3 gallons yet still missed my OG number of 1.056-1.061 by .04 (1.052)
Now, I didn't think that will be too bad since I did keep it to a low boil most the time.
Also I am not a fan of hops.. so I put in the Bittering hops for only 25 min of 50 min the boil called for and the Aroma for the 10 minutes called for.
So how bad did I do..? Am I going to end up with a bitter flat weak beer..?
Good thing is I know next time to..
1) Get a bigger pot
2) Pull the grain bag out.. before boiling.
Just curious what I can expect..?