arjackson37
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Hey everyone, so last week I brewed an American Pale Ale with a Brewer's Best extract kit. I rehydrated my yeast, pitched it into my carboy and placed the carboy into my closet where it can ferment at a steady 68 degrees. Everything so far had went according to plan. I checked the airlock the next day and there were occasional bubbles. A day later I come back and the entire stopper and air lock have been blown off of the carboy and foam had came out of the carboy and onto the floor! In an attempt to prevent another blow out I removed about 3/4 of a gallon of wort from the carboy and replaced the airlock and stopper. For the next 3 days I continued to get vigorous bubbling in the airlock but thankfully no blowouts.
My OG was 1.052 which is what the recipe called for.
I moved the wort to secondary today (8 days later) and took a gravity reading and it was 1.010. (The recipe called for 1.012-1.015).
Also I did a taste test and found the wort to have decent hop flavor but it had a slight watered-down flavor to it.
Should I be concerned with my low gravity reading of 1.010?
What are your thoughts about how the blowout incident will affect my wort?
What's up with the watered-down flavor?
My OG was 1.052 which is what the recipe called for.
I moved the wort to secondary today (8 days later) and took a gravity reading and it was 1.010. (The recipe called for 1.012-1.015).
Also I did a taste test and found the wort to have decent hop flavor but it had a slight watered-down flavor to it.
Should I be concerned with my low gravity reading of 1.010?
What are your thoughts about how the blowout incident will affect my wort?
What's up with the watered-down flavor?