Thanks again for everyone's help and answers this far.
On Saturday morning I brewed my first batch. I had the yeast starter going and it was basically at high krausen. The mixture of LME and water ended up being a tad high at 1.080 instead of the recommended 1.040.. is this bad?
So i got the wort boiling and it was sitting at around 215* for the 60 minutes. One thing I noticed though, was no "hot break". I had read that it was going to get real foamy and to be careful of a boil-over, but there never seemed to get any real amount of foam, even after adding both additions of hops. I did notice a SLIGHT amount of foam, but nothing to crazy and no chunks floating around like i thought might happen with the hot break. Did something go wrong here? Is this common with using LME?
Anyways, so I boiled for 60 and then took the pot for an ice bath in the tub and got it cooled to 70* w/in 30 minutes, which was the same temp as my yeast starter. I took an OG reading before adding yeast and I was at 1.043 which was right in the middle of the recommended OG for my recipe. woot! Tasted pretty good as well.. like a sweet tea with some hops..lol
Gave it a nice aeration and pitched the yeast and took it to the closet to let er start fermenting. Noticed some nice activity in the airlock the next morning.
On Saturday morning I brewed my first batch. I had the yeast starter going and it was basically at high krausen. The mixture of LME and water ended up being a tad high at 1.080 instead of the recommended 1.040.. is this bad?
So i got the wort boiling and it was sitting at around 215* for the 60 minutes. One thing I noticed though, was no "hot break". I had read that it was going to get real foamy and to be careful of a boil-over, but there never seemed to get any real amount of foam, even after adding both additions of hops. I did notice a SLIGHT amount of foam, but nothing to crazy and no chunks floating around like i thought might happen with the hot break. Did something go wrong here? Is this common with using LME?
Anyways, so I boiled for 60 and then took the pot for an ice bath in the tub and got it cooled to 70* w/in 30 minutes, which was the same temp as my yeast starter. I took an OG reading before adding yeast and I was at 1.043 which was right in the middle of the recommended OG for my recipe. woot! Tasted pretty good as well.. like a sweet tea with some hops..lol
Gave it a nice aeration and pitched the yeast and took it to the closet to let er start fermenting. Noticed some nice activity in the airlock the next morning.