HarbourHops
Member
My wife and I purchased our starter kit yesterday and began our first batch last night. Not sure everything we did is right and there seem to be a WHOLE lot of factors that can mess things up sooooo. Couple questions,
1) Bought a bag with ingredients to make a 5 gallon batch. Directions said to steep the grains for 20 minutes at 70*? We got the water (purified) to 70 and just laid the bag of grains in the pot. It really didn't seem to accomplish anything? Watching You Tube this morning the guy on the video said to steep at 170*? He also swirled the water around with a large spoon and then pored warm water over the grain bag when he was done steeping it? Really changed the color of his water.
2) While doing the 60 minute rolling boil we really seemed to loose a lot of the water. ended up with probably closer to 3 gallons than 5. This morning after some debating we removed the airlock and added 2 gallons of room temperature purified water to the mix to bring the batch back up to 5 gallons. Just did check the airlock and it is bubbling.
Is there still a chance that everything will be o.k.?
Also I'm new to forums so if I'm doing something incorrectly here I apologize.
1) Bought a bag with ingredients to make a 5 gallon batch. Directions said to steep the grains for 20 minutes at 70*? We got the water (purified) to 70 and just laid the bag of grains in the pot. It really didn't seem to accomplish anything? Watching You Tube this morning the guy on the video said to steep at 170*? He also swirled the water around with a large spoon and then pored warm water over the grain bag when he was done steeping it? Really changed the color of his water.
2) While doing the 60 minute rolling boil we really seemed to loose a lot of the water. ended up with probably closer to 3 gallons than 5. This morning after some debating we removed the airlock and added 2 gallons of room temperature purified water to the mix to bring the batch back up to 5 gallons. Just did check the airlock and it is bubbling.
Is there still a chance that everything will be o.k.?
Also I'm new to forums so if I'm doing something incorrectly here I apologize.