I brewed two single malt (vienna) brews a week ago. In the fermenter they look very different.
The one on the left I mashed for 60 minutes, checked for conversion with iodine then drained and sparged into the boil kettle. I didn't start heating until sparging was complete.
The one on the right I mashed for 90 minutes but started heating the first runnings while sparging. I batch sparged both brews.
Boiled both for 60 minutes, chilled through my cfc then pitched us-05 into them.
The mash times, and early heating and hop types are really the only difference between the two brews.
Why do they look so different?
A week in the fermenter and the one on the left has me worried.
After agitation.......
It was the first brewed that day.
Possibly it picked up something from my cfc?
Can somebody talk me off the ledge or confirm my suspicion ?
The one on the left I mashed for 60 minutes, checked for conversion with iodine then drained and sparged into the boil kettle. I didn't start heating until sparging was complete.
The one on the right I mashed for 90 minutes but started heating the first runnings while sparging. I batch sparged both brews.
Boiled both for 60 minutes, chilled through my cfc then pitched us-05 into them.
The mash times, and early heating and hop types are really the only difference between the two brews.
Why do they look so different?
A week in the fermenter and the one on the left has me worried.
After agitation.......
It was the first brewed that day.
Possibly it picked up something from my cfc?
Can somebody talk me off the ledge or confirm my suspicion ?