Did I ruin this batch?
Working on my first brew (so excited!) and I forgot to use water. I'm doing a kit with LME and hops. I started out boiling the LME which was really messy, being there was no water. It splattered a lot and I think I even burned a little of it. With all that sticky bubbling you'd think I would have thought "hey noob . . don't you need water to make beer??". So I tossed in the hops at the right time but it was hard to stir them in but most of the pellets got down into the sludge.
After 45 mins (I just couldn't get to the full hour -- I was driking a lot and had to pee but was afraid to leave this kettle of boiling lava) I put the pot in an ice bath and cooled it down to 65 degress. I tried to dump it into my ferm bucket but now that it was cool, it was a thick as . . . I don't know, burned LME i guess!! So I grabbed a garden trowel (yes I washed and sanitized it -- very careful brewer I am) and scrapped all the black stuff into my bucket and threw in the yeast. I stirred it in as best as I could but after breaking three wooden spoons I gave up and put the lid on with my air lock (filled with a little vodka after I took a deep swig).
Here is my question: obviously I won't get near the 5gals I was looking for (right now it looks like about 3 pints of black concrete) and it doesn't seem as if fermintation has started yet (its been 2 weeks), most of the yeast is just sitting on top, rather placid looking. Shoudl I toss this one? You guys always say DWRHAHB so maybe I'm just conerned about nothing. I'm sure you guys do this all the time! Also, I wanted it to have a really unique taste so I'm thinking of adding apples and bananas . . should I toss those in now or will that ruin it?
Thanks for your help, you guys are the best!
Working on my first brew (so excited!) and I forgot to use water. I'm doing a kit with LME and hops. I started out boiling the LME which was really messy, being there was no water. It splattered a lot and I think I even burned a little of it. With all that sticky bubbling you'd think I would have thought "hey noob . . don't you need water to make beer??". So I tossed in the hops at the right time but it was hard to stir them in but most of the pellets got down into the sludge.
After 45 mins (I just couldn't get to the full hour -- I was driking a lot and had to pee but was afraid to leave this kettle of boiling lava) I put the pot in an ice bath and cooled it down to 65 degress. I tried to dump it into my ferm bucket but now that it was cool, it was a thick as . . . I don't know, burned LME i guess!! So I grabbed a garden trowel (yes I washed and sanitized it -- very careful brewer I am) and scrapped all the black stuff into my bucket and threw in the yeast. I stirred it in as best as I could but after breaking three wooden spoons I gave up and put the lid on with my air lock (filled with a little vodka after I took a deep swig).
Here is my question: obviously I won't get near the 5gals I was looking for (right now it looks like about 3 pints of black concrete) and it doesn't seem as if fermintation has started yet (its been 2 weeks), most of the yeast is just sitting on top, rather placid looking. Shoudl I toss this one? You guys always say DWRHAHB so maybe I'm just conerned about nothing. I'm sure you guys do this all the time! Also, I wanted it to have a really unique taste so I'm thinking of adding apples and bananas . . should I toss those in now or will that ruin it?
Thanks for your help, you guys are the best!