Willsellout
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So I brewed yesterday; Austin Homebrew double chocolate stout. Everything went well until it came time to cool and transfer to my 6.5 gal carboy. By the time the boil was done I had about 1.5 gal of wort. The directions told me to chill the water I was going to use to bring the wort up to 5 1/4 gallons, so I did. Well once I chilled the 1.5 gal of wort and transferred and started pouring the cool water in, the temp quickly dropped to 65 or so. Also I had to guess on temp as my thermometer broke and the fermometer on the carboy got wet and was falling off. So here I am 1.5 gal of warm liquid and 4 gal of cold liquid. The fermometer finally stuck and the reading was at 66. It has been that way all night and this morning the yeast is on the bottom and there is no fermentation going on that I can see. Also when I transferred I used a funnel with a screen and it kept clogging up and I had to stop and toss the trub in the sink and then put it back on and pour. I did this about 5 times and I'm worried I tainted the wort somehow. Everything was sanitized and I was wearing gloves, but still I don't have as much faith as I did last time with my sanitization. So right now, I have the carboy wrapped in a sweater, sitting on a blanket and a towl on a heating pad set on low to try and bring the temp up to get fermentation started. Can I do anything else, or is what I'm doing wrong? Are there any tricks that you use to get the wort into the carboy or what you use keep an eye on the tempurature? Floating thermometer?
I also broke my auto siphon. I am pretty frustrated right now. Hopefully things are allright and it starts soon.
OG was 1.068 and AHB says it should be at 1.056
Dan
I also broke my auto siphon. I am pretty frustrated right now. Hopefully things are allright and it starts soon.
OG was 1.068 and AHB says it should be at 1.056
Dan