irishwater said:
revvy
You have to be getting tired of me. I started brewing hating the hydrometer because the first once I got was broken. So, I got in a bad habit. I will break that habit
THANK YOU
Break the habit NOT the hydrometer
It's your friend...It's how the beer talks to you....There's really no other way to know what's going on during the fermentation process...Bubbles in an airlock don't tell you, smell doesn't tell you, looks really don't tell you. The hydrometer is like the babel fish that translates beer language into human.
You're too nervous about your beer, this isn't a weak newborn baby...even making small n00b mistakes like racking into secondary early isn't going to ruin it....People have put their entire unsanitized arm into a bucket of beer to fish something out and their beer still turned out fine.
We all make mistakes now and then, no matter what are level of expertise...And USUALLY the beer is very forgiving.
Heck I racked a beer into a carboy and realized afterwords that I hadn't sanitized it...and guess what? The beer turned out fine anyway.
Yeast has been eating sugar water and peeing beer for millenia, most of the time without our help....Just step away from the carboy for a couple weeks and let the yeasties do their job.
Since your primary is open, brew another beer, it'll take your mind off the first one...only don't do what you did in the previous batch...use the knowlege that you've learned in the last few days...and if you are contemplating doing something 'cause you think you did something wrong, ask us first.
Everything will be copacetic with your first beer.
