ColoradoHB
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Hello folks.
I've been tooling with the idea of jumping in, and my bride finally took my hint and purchased a Brewer's Best Beer Kit. I'm finally out of the gates. As with most beginner's, I'm already learning as I go from my trusty Papazian book and reading posts here. Here's what I've got going on thus far....I imagine, I need to simply wait at this point, but any pointers/confirmation will set me at ease.
I started brewing an IPA. Started with approximately 3 gallons in a kettle with 1 lb of Briess Caramei 60 grains steeped for 20 minutes pre-boil (man did that smell outstanding), 8 lbs of Briess Pilsen Light Extract were added and brought to a boil, and 3 different rounds of Centennial Hops at 2oz. per round (60-10-0 minutes). All went well minus a rookie's boil over at first hop introduction....didn't lose a ton though. That sucked though.....
Cooled the wort to 80 degrees, transferred to a carboy via racking cane/siphon introducing a good amound of oxygen, and added enough H20 for 5 gallons....seemed to be about a 50/50 split of wort to water ratio, maybe bit more water. I then took at hydrometer reading (1.042-1.044 if I read it right), and then added a liquid yeast that I activated 3 hours earlier and shook the heck out of the carboy...then I placed my Econolock....within 10 hours fermination was in serious mode, as the lock was foaming and liquid had entered the lock chamber.....then 5 hours later, POP! went my lock and bung which also broke the plastic contraption. From there, I quickly sanatized some hose and the rubber carboy bung and re-sealed. I ended up without a sealed carboy after 10 minutes of being off (enough to sanitize) which then drained for the next hour, maybe two.
From there, the fermination has slowed to a point of no additional drainage, but man is there quite a fermination show going on in the carboy. It started at about 66-67 degrees, and has jumped to 70 which seems to be within range of temp. Quite a dance going on in that carboy! In addition, I have a quality amount of sediment at the bottom of the carboy and the top has a layer of hop/wort/yeast caked to the top where the airchamber lies.
Soooooo, I seem to have resolved a few rookie misses, but I was seeking a bit of advice from here. Shall I just let this puppy sit for the next 2-3 weeks and pour a beer to plan my next batch? And from there, move it to bottling after another hydrometer read, or would there be any reason to move it to a 2nd fermentor? The beer is a beautiful orange hue that you probably couldn't see an inch into since it's so cloudy. I imagine the cloudiness begins to disapate after a bit, but I guess I'm not sure what to expect.
Any advice, thoughts, observations?
Thanks folks!
I've been tooling with the idea of jumping in, and my bride finally took my hint and purchased a Brewer's Best Beer Kit. I'm finally out of the gates. As with most beginner's, I'm already learning as I go from my trusty Papazian book and reading posts here. Here's what I've got going on thus far....I imagine, I need to simply wait at this point, but any pointers/confirmation will set me at ease.
I started brewing an IPA. Started with approximately 3 gallons in a kettle with 1 lb of Briess Caramei 60 grains steeped for 20 minutes pre-boil (man did that smell outstanding), 8 lbs of Briess Pilsen Light Extract were added and brought to a boil, and 3 different rounds of Centennial Hops at 2oz. per round (60-10-0 minutes). All went well minus a rookie's boil over at first hop introduction....didn't lose a ton though. That sucked though.....
Cooled the wort to 80 degrees, transferred to a carboy via racking cane/siphon introducing a good amound of oxygen, and added enough H20 for 5 gallons....seemed to be about a 50/50 split of wort to water ratio, maybe bit more water. I then took at hydrometer reading (1.042-1.044 if I read it right), and then added a liquid yeast that I activated 3 hours earlier and shook the heck out of the carboy...then I placed my Econolock....within 10 hours fermination was in serious mode, as the lock was foaming and liquid had entered the lock chamber.....then 5 hours later, POP! went my lock and bung which also broke the plastic contraption. From there, I quickly sanatized some hose and the rubber carboy bung and re-sealed. I ended up without a sealed carboy after 10 minutes of being off (enough to sanitize) which then drained for the next hour, maybe two.
From there, the fermination has slowed to a point of no additional drainage, but man is there quite a fermination show going on in the carboy. It started at about 66-67 degrees, and has jumped to 70 which seems to be within range of temp. Quite a dance going on in that carboy! In addition, I have a quality amount of sediment at the bottom of the carboy and the top has a layer of hop/wort/yeast caked to the top where the airchamber lies.
Soooooo, I seem to have resolved a few rookie misses, but I was seeking a bit of advice from here. Shall I just let this puppy sit for the next 2-3 weeks and pour a beer to plan my next batch? And from there, move it to bottling after another hydrometer read, or would there be any reason to move it to a 2nd fermentor? The beer is a beautiful orange hue that you probably couldn't see an inch into since it's so cloudy. I imagine the cloudiness begins to disapate after a bit, but I guess I'm not sure what to expect.
Any advice, thoughts, observations?
Thanks folks!