Distracted so messed up

benzy4010 · Feb 16, 2013

Tried to squeez a brew day into my Saturday and was successful, sorta. I think I had to roaring a boil so boiled off to much wort. Shooting for a five gallon brew and ended up with like 4. Also I did an IPA and didn't have my hop bags so the wort is extremely cloudy. Just looks like a green cloud wort. I used a whorflcok tab so it will help some but I dunno about this batch

mgortel · Feb 16, 2013

Just top it off with a gallon of water....the hops and cloudiness should settle out while it sets. You will be fine...never know....might be the best brew you've made to date! :mug:

benzy4010 · Feb 16, 2013

Adding gallon now. It's a new Zealand hopped IPA I'm excited to taste it

thadius856 · Feb 16, 2013

If you want clearer IPAs, use a hop bag and toss in 1/4 tsp of Irish Moss per 5 gallons of wort 10 minutes before flame out.

You should be fine with the 1-gallon top up. You might have lost some hop utilization, so your bitterness might come in lower than normal, but I'm sure it'll still be a fine beer.

Best of luck.

benzy4010 · Feb 17, 2013

thadius856 · Feb 17, 2013

Looks pretty cloudy still. Is that green in the krausen, or just a digital artifact?

benzy4010 · Feb 17, 2013

Green. From the flameout hops. Green when I pitched yeast

thadius856 · Feb 17, 2013

Interesting. Mine always fall straight to the bottom in a matter of minutes. Look like you'd be fine.

Nice blanket...

benzy4010 · Feb 17, 2013

Haha yea. Wife got into making blankets so everyone including the dog got one. She doesn't like it but my fermenters do. Yea there are hunks of hops just floating around and it reeks of hops. Not complaining but it's different than any i have done before

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