HoppyDaze
Well-Known Member
I brewed the Rogue Brewery dead guy recipe tonight. The recipe indicates that after all the cooking there should be around one and a half gallons of wart left in the pot. This after starting with three gallons and a total of an hour and ten minutes of boiling adding various amount hops etc during the process
Well in my case; there was two gallons in the pot after finishing the recipe directions for the cooking. The recipe says that when cooking is finished to add water to the pot so you don't risk harming the fermenter with scalding wort ; so I added a gallon and a half to the pot and transfered the wort to fermenter. Then as the recipe instructs, I added cold water to the 5 gallon mark. (cold water) well my water was room temp when I bought it and I didn't have refrigerator space for it so I set it outside in 45F while I brewed the beer. it was out there for about 2 1/2 hours.
Point of the story ...I cant seem to cool the wort. the recipe suggests that as the cold water is added it cools the wort. Well I have 2 things going against me...more hot wort than the recipe indicated and the cold water was probably not as cold as it should have been. and now the wort is still at 86f after an hour of trying to cool it.
Its almost midnight and I'm sleepy. What is the highest temp I can pitch is push comes to shove? I'm using White Labs American ale yeast blend WLP060
Everything else went great! I just cant seem to get things cold enough to pitch
Thanks
Well in my case; there was two gallons in the pot after finishing the recipe directions for the cooking. The recipe says that when cooking is finished to add water to the pot so you don't risk harming the fermenter with scalding wort ; so I added a gallon and a half to the pot and transfered the wort to fermenter. Then as the recipe instructs, I added cold water to the 5 gallon mark. (cold water) well my water was room temp when I bought it and I didn't have refrigerator space for it so I set it outside in 45F while I brewed the beer. it was out there for about 2 1/2 hours.
Point of the story ...I cant seem to cool the wort. the recipe suggests that as the cold water is added it cools the wort. Well I have 2 things going against me...more hot wort than the recipe indicated and the cold water was probably not as cold as it should have been. and now the wort is still at 86f after an hour of trying to cool it.
Its almost midnight and I'm sleepy. What is the highest temp I can pitch is push comes to shove? I'm using White Labs American ale yeast blend WLP060
Everything else went great! I just cant seem to get things cold enough to pitch
Thanks