I created the starter for an IPA about a week ago, couldn't get around to brew till yesterday.
During brewing, I had 2 boil overs, very short, just lost a few floating hops, nothing major.
I cooled the wort to 65deg, aerated it and poured it in a carboy to aerate it further. I took a gravity reading of 1.032 for a recipe with 8lbs of malt! Could this be from the aerating or from the fact that I took it from the top of a carboy that had been settling for about 10min it was estimated that the gravity was suppose to be ~1.070.
So I set up a blow off for it and wake up this morning 10 hours later and there is almost no activity going on inside the fermentor, very slow fermentation. Is this from the starter sitting so long?
For a batch that I had thought to be my most perfectly brewed one yet, I'm seeing anomalies. Anyone want to confirm or give me their opinions as to why things are acting the way they are?
Also I have about 4 oz of hops in the carboy from the first wort/boil/steep. If it sits at the bottom of this carboy for 2 weeks are they going to act like dry hopping? Should I rack the beer off of it sooner rather than later?
During brewing, I had 2 boil overs, very short, just lost a few floating hops, nothing major.
I cooled the wort to 65deg, aerated it and poured it in a carboy to aerate it further. I took a gravity reading of 1.032 for a recipe with 8lbs of malt! Could this be from the aerating or from the fact that I took it from the top of a carboy that had been settling for about 10min it was estimated that the gravity was suppose to be ~1.070.
So I set up a blow off for it and wake up this morning 10 hours later and there is almost no activity going on inside the fermentor, very slow fermentation. Is this from the starter sitting so long?
For a batch that I had thought to be my most perfectly brewed one yet, I'm seeing anomalies. Anyone want to confirm or give me their opinions as to why things are acting the way they are?
Also I have about 4 oz of hops in the carboy from the first wort/boil/steep. If it sits at the bottom of this carboy for 2 weeks are they going to act like dry hopping? Should I rack the beer off of it sooner rather than later?