Beehemel
Well-Known Member
Two weeks ago I brewed my Imperial Red. The OG was 1.090 and I made a starter of Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale yeast (average attenuation 71-75%). I didn't put a blow off tube on it because I brewed it at a friends house and I didn't think of using one, so it blew the top off the bucket sometime Monday while he was at work. We don't know how long the lid was off the bucket, but he said the hops were dried on the bottom of the lid when he got to it. He sanitized everything and rigged up a blow off, and it started happily bubbling away again. I racked to secondary on Sunday (after two weeks) and it tasted ok, but the FG was lower than I expected it to be. I was expecting about 1.023 to 1.025 (based on brewtarget calculations) and ended up with 1.020 which is 77.77% attenuation. I'm guessing it's going to be fine because it tasted good, and I know, RDWHAHB, but I guess I need some other opinions on it.