AboutTheStout
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Aight, so, uh...where to begin. I was advised by some to give my brew some extra time in the primary fermenter and so I did - tonight I went ahead and took a gravity reading and am sitting at 1.010 (I think I'm reading this right - does that sound off to anyone? - like high or low?) but the thing is with my recipe it doesn't really give a desired reading to be going for. The brew in question is a Nut Brown Ale - does anyone know if there are "average" readings per drink style or what not? I've tried looking online for the recipe I have here in my hands but I can't seem to find it.
Also, the day of brewing - when trying to pop in the Airlock the two "O-Rings" that created an air tight seal fell out - we did the best we could with getting em back on and what not but I was worried that without an air tight seal that maybe something "bad" would get in and start wreaking havoc on "muh drink" - not sure if that's just paranoid reasoning but when I opened her up everything looked/smelled great. Or at least on the right path. I guess I'm not so worried about that now because after a few weeks if something did happen it'd be evident, right? I only ask because I think we are going to go into the bottling phase next week and I want to make sure that it doesn't sit around longer with the chance of something getting in. Should I not even worry about this? I'm not some super paranoid person but I understand that we don't want "sh*t" gettin into the brew and having a chance to mess it all up.
Thanks ladies and gents. :fro:
Also, the day of brewing - when trying to pop in the Airlock the two "O-Rings" that created an air tight seal fell out - we did the best we could with getting em back on and what not but I was worried that without an air tight seal that maybe something "bad" would get in and start wreaking havoc on "muh drink" - not sure if that's just paranoid reasoning but when I opened her up everything looked/smelled great. Or at least on the right path. I guess I'm not so worried about that now because after a few weeks if something did happen it'd be evident, right? I only ask because I think we are going to go into the bottling phase next week and I want to make sure that it doesn't sit around longer with the chance of something getting in. Should I not even worry about this? I'm not some super paranoid person but I understand that we don't want "sh*t" gettin into the brew and having a chance to mess it all up.
Thanks ladies and gents. :fro: