meteorbrews
Well-Known Member
Hey guys/gals,
I want to see if my 1st batch of beer is still good, I brewed it last night, I think i've covered most of the bases on noob mistakes, and then some maybe. So here is a list of things that went wrong.
1. Boilover, no hops had been added yet and only half the malt extract i was using.
2. Cooled the wort without a lid on it, probably not a huge issue.
3. Pushed the rubber stopper into the carboy full of the wort, had to empty it half way and had to use a hanger to pull if back through.
4. Blowout. About an hour after i left for work this morning the airlock (3 piece) clogged and subsquently blew out
not much volume was lost, maybe 100mL.
Luckily SWMBO was home and was able to at least deal with the mess, rinse off the stopper and airlock and put it back on, albeit without the inner piece of the airlock or the lid. So the carboy sat like that for about 11 hours before I made it home to resanitize the airlock/stopper/neck of the carboy. Vigourous fermentation is still taking place as we speak and sanitizer is oozing out of the top of the airlock, but the stark white foam, which i would like to assume is the krausen, is no longer rising up. My recipe was Palmers Cincinnati PA, my OG was 1.040. I used S-04 dry ale yeast with an ambient temperature of 70F in the room I am fermenting in. Also the smell coming out of the fermentor is a nice hoppy ale smell.
Attached are two pictures, one showing the stark white foam and the second one, showing the leftover residue, which is somewhat granular like sand but a bit gummy at the same time.
What do you think? Let me know if you want any more info. In the mean time, since i dont have any homebrew yet, I will go enjoy my fav micro, Propeller Bitter.
Thanks,
Brad
I want to see if my 1st batch of beer is still good, I brewed it last night, I think i've covered most of the bases on noob mistakes, and then some maybe. So here is a list of things that went wrong.
1. Boilover, no hops had been added yet and only half the malt extract i was using.
2. Cooled the wort without a lid on it, probably not a huge issue.
3. Pushed the rubber stopper into the carboy full of the wort, had to empty it half way and had to use a hanger to pull if back through.
4. Blowout. About an hour after i left for work this morning the airlock (3 piece) clogged and subsquently blew out
not much volume was lost, maybe 100mL. Luckily SWMBO was home and was able to at least deal with the mess, rinse off the stopper and airlock and put it back on, albeit without the inner piece of the airlock or the lid. So the carboy sat like that for about 11 hours before I made it home to resanitize the airlock/stopper/neck of the carboy. Vigourous fermentation is still taking place as we speak and sanitizer is oozing out of the top of the airlock, but the stark white foam, which i would like to assume is the krausen, is no longer rising up. My recipe was Palmers Cincinnati PA, my OG was 1.040. I used S-04 dry ale yeast with an ambient temperature of 70F in the room I am fermenting in. Also the smell coming out of the fermentor is a nice hoppy ale smell.
Attached are two pictures, one showing the stark white foam and the second one, showing the leftover residue, which is somewhat granular like sand but a bit gummy at the same time.
What do you think? Let me know if you want any more info. In the mean time, since i dont have any homebrew yet, I will go enjoy my fav micro, Propeller Bitter.
Thanks,
Brad
