giantlittledog
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I'm newish to this game and only just starting to try to experiment more and add ingredients to my beer on the road to hopefully do full grain beer.
I started with:
Coopers Pale Ale Kit
500gm of the beer enhancer 2
and since I really love the hops at the moment(yes I'm from New Zealand). 70gm of Cascade hops made into a tea for 15minutes then strained off, juices poured into the fermenter.
21 litres of water
Opening gravity was 1.035, so not overly high
Added to this after tasting a bottle of the Atom Blend-1 beer with camomile I thought I'd add a couple of spoonfulls of earl grey tea leaves and another 30gm of hops into a mesh bag (love the hops).
Problem was for some stupid reason. I put the mesh bag in the primary at the start of the fermentation process and not at the end.:smack:
It's only been 4 days, but I haven't seen a huge amount of bubbling through the airlock, but as I have a string poking out the side of my bucket, it's probably not the most air tight container. There is a small amount of sludge on the bottom and a ring a cm or so higher then the beer level indicating that at some stage there was krausen/fermentation on top.
Basically I'm worried that dry hopping so early may have killed the fermentation, has anyone had any experience with this?
I'll take a gravity reading tomorrow and see where it's at. I'm told that FG for this beer is about 1.010 or round abouts, so hopefully it just finished quickly
And yes I'm probably an idiot for trying something so stupid
I started with:
Coopers Pale Ale Kit
500gm of the beer enhancer 2
and since I really love the hops at the moment(yes I'm from New Zealand). 70gm of Cascade hops made into a tea for 15minutes then strained off, juices poured into the fermenter.
21 litres of water
Opening gravity was 1.035, so not overly high
Added to this after tasting a bottle of the Atom Blend-1 beer with camomile I thought I'd add a couple of spoonfulls of earl grey tea leaves and another 30gm of hops into a mesh bag (love the hops).
Problem was for some stupid reason. I put the mesh bag in the primary at the start of the fermentation process and not at the end.:smack:
It's only been 4 days, but I haven't seen a huge amount of bubbling through the airlock, but as I have a string poking out the side of my bucket, it's probably not the most air tight container. There is a small amount of sludge on the bottom and a ring a cm or so higher then the beer level indicating that at some stage there was krausen/fermentation on top.
Basically I'm worried that dry hopping so early may have killed the fermentation, has anyone had any experience with this?
I'll take a gravity reading tomorrow and see where it's at. I'm told that FG for this beer is about 1.010 or round abouts, so hopefully it just finished quickly
And yes I'm probably an idiot for trying something so stupid