First time home brewer here.
I started with a dried malt extract with specialty grains... Liquid yeast (white labs California ale)... Three part hops bill...
I picked up a deluxe starter kit at my local homebrew shop which included a 6 gal glass carboy. I may have overfilled the carboy after transferring from the brew pot to the carboy... I did not pre measure levels in the carboy so instead I topped off the wort to the top ridge on the carboy... I thought the brewmaster said the top ridge was the 5 gallons mark.
But after measuring an original gravity of 1.0041 I was worried that I screwed something up because the recipe called for an OG of 1.0050. In hindsight, I wish I had spun the hydrometer to ensure no bubbles affected the reading... The only significant tweak to the recipe was exchanging a late addition of liquid malt extract with an initial addition of dried malt extract... Not sure how this might impact OG.
Initially, all this gunk settled to the bottom (I assume this is trub)... But by the next morning, the trub had risen to the top. Throughout the next day, the airlock was bubbling constantly and all seemed well.
On the evening of the third day everything was progressing smoothly until my fiance noticed that the trub had turned into foam... I remembered reading about a 'foam tube' in my book (The Complete Joy of Homebrewing)... I started looking for specific directions in the book when I heard a 'POP' from the brew closet...
No big deal... The airlock got clogged and the stopper popped out but there was not much of a mess... Until the foam started escaping the top of the carboy... I quickly sanitized some tube and the ejected plug to create a foam tube... I plugged the carboy and put the other end of it in a 1 gal water bottle containing the sanitizer.
After I mistakenly stuffed the plug too far into the carboy (with tube still attached) , it slid into the carboy entirely. Fortunately, my sexy, engineer fiance was quick to act... After allowing the building gas pressure to force the plug back into the hole... She was was able to extract the plug with an altered shish-ka-Bob skewer... God bless her.
The carboy is now cleanly exporting gas and the following pics were taken after all the issues I described...
My question:
Should I throw away my beer?
I started with a dried malt extract with specialty grains... Liquid yeast (white labs California ale)... Three part hops bill...
I picked up a deluxe starter kit at my local homebrew shop which included a 6 gal glass carboy. I may have overfilled the carboy after transferring from the brew pot to the carboy... I did not pre measure levels in the carboy so instead I topped off the wort to the top ridge on the carboy... I thought the brewmaster said the top ridge was the 5 gallons mark.
But after measuring an original gravity of 1.0041 I was worried that I screwed something up because the recipe called for an OG of 1.0050. In hindsight, I wish I had spun the hydrometer to ensure no bubbles affected the reading... The only significant tweak to the recipe was exchanging a late addition of liquid malt extract with an initial addition of dried malt extract... Not sure how this might impact OG.
Initially, all this gunk settled to the bottom (I assume this is trub)... But by the next morning, the trub had risen to the top. Throughout the next day, the airlock was bubbling constantly and all seemed well.
On the evening of the third day everything was progressing smoothly until my fiance noticed that the trub had turned into foam... I remembered reading about a 'foam tube' in my book (The Complete Joy of Homebrewing)... I started looking for specific directions in the book when I heard a 'POP' from the brew closet...
No big deal... The airlock got clogged and the stopper popped out but there was not much of a mess... Until the foam started escaping the top of the carboy... I quickly sanitized some tube and the ejected plug to create a foam tube... I plugged the carboy and put the other end of it in a 1 gal water bottle containing the sanitizer.
After I mistakenly stuffed the plug too far into the carboy (with tube still attached) , it slid into the carboy entirely. Fortunately, my sexy, engineer fiance was quick to act... After allowing the building gas pressure to force the plug back into the hole... She was was able to extract the plug with an altered shish-ka-Bob skewer... God bless her.
The carboy is now cleanly exporting gas and the following pics were taken after all the issues I described...
My question:
Should I throw away my beer?