cellardoor
Well-Known Member
With about 15 minutes left in the boil of my 2-row/ Sorachi Ace SMaSH yesterday it started raining. I couldn't find an umbrella handy so I just let the rain hit the boil kettle. I didn't think that was too big of a deal until it started storming with about 5 minutes left. It was raining so hard it stopped the boil so I decided just to bring the brew inside to chill. When I was bringing in my keggle to where I chill the power went out so I was chilling in the dark and forgot to put in my flame out hops. I remembered when the wort was at about 120F and dumped them in. Immediately after dumping them in I realized I should have just saved them for dry hopping but it was too late. Add to that me dropping my flashlight into the wort and the siphon trouble in which I only collected about 4.75 gallons instead of 5.25ish and it was a pretty horrible brew day.
My questions are as follows: Will the rainwater affect anything? (I live in a Chicago suburb and I'm sure the rain is not that clean) Also will the flame out hops that I put in there at 120F until I racked which was about 20 min. later do anything or was it a waste of 3/4 oz. of hops?
Thanks ahead of time for the answers.
My questions are as follows: Will the rainwater affect anything? (I live in a Chicago suburb and I'm sure the rain is not that clean) Also will the flame out hops that I put in there at 120F until I racked which was about 20 min. later do anything or was it a waste of 3/4 oz. of hops?
Thanks ahead of time for the answers.