smokin_pitmaster
Member
well i finally got started last night.. i needed to get a couple of items after dinner, and got going at 8:30 or so.
i sanitized everything and then got my water boiling and mixed in the malt extract at about 9:15. after mixing, i fired up my stove and started heating the water and extract up.
question: i through in the hopps before the wart started boiling.. should i have waited?
so i boiled for an hour and had an ice bath ready, so i took the pot out and within 10 min the wart was at 73 degrees, i poured the wart into the fermenter and then proceeded to pour back and fourth three times, then filled the fermenter up to 5 gals with water, poured two more times from the boiling bucket to the fermenter for aeration. put the top on the fermenter, added the airlock, and placed it in my garage.
the airlock was bubbling within 20 mins.... is this OK?
the wort was at about 63 degrees this morning so i moved the bucket into our house which is about 70.
hopefully, i'll have beer in 6 weeks..!
ron-
i sanitized everything and then got my water boiling and mixed in the malt extract at about 9:15. after mixing, i fired up my stove and started heating the water and extract up.
question: i through in the hopps before the wart started boiling.. should i have waited?
so i boiled for an hour and had an ice bath ready, so i took the pot out and within 10 min the wart was at 73 degrees, i poured the wart into the fermenter and then proceeded to pour back and fourth three times, then filled the fermenter up to 5 gals with water, poured two more times from the boiling bucket to the fermenter for aeration. put the top on the fermenter, added the airlock, and placed it in my garage.
the airlock was bubbling within 20 mins.... is this OK?
the wort was at about 63 degrees this morning so i moved the bucket into our house which is about 70.
hopefully, i'll have beer in 6 weeks..!
ron-