Henryinoregon
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Hello everyone! So i just brewed my first beer! it was a hoppy brown i thought that dark and heavy would be easier to manage. This experience has been a bit harrowing from the get go. So we had to do some math with the bittering hop it was supposed to be a perle (5oz) but the shop had none so we used what they handed us and had to do some substitution, which we of course did incorrectly. No worries though its the first beer. then we took the SG of the wort concentrate not the full 5gal (about a gallon of water diluted), so we really didnt know the SG.
During the boil the cat got out so we had to chase her for 20 minutes, when we got back the condensation on the ceiling was so great that it was actually raining in the kitchen..... back into the boil..... brushing this horrible horrible turn of events off our shoulders we decided to continue as planned. We fermented for a full 2 weeks untill we had no activity in the airlock, and, on the suggestion of the 'lets brew' store let it sit for an extra 2 days, however this is all a moot point seeing as how we did not actually know the starting gravity.
So bottling day came (HuzzaH!) and 2 bottles in the darn capper broke. so 50 minutes later we finished bottling the rest of the beer (after we bought a new capper).
Now i actually get to my question. we primed the unbottled beer by adding equal parts corn sugar and boiling water (less than a cup each) and mixed, then bottled. Now (2 days later) I can see a distinct layer of sediment on the bottom of the bottles. My questions are
A) will this batch kill me?
B) Did we just bottle too early?
Thank you all for powering through this epic tale of.......... bad..... technique... And your help is apprecieated!
During the boil the cat got out so we had to chase her for 20 minutes, when we got back the condensation on the ceiling was so great that it was actually raining in the kitchen..... back into the boil..... brushing this horrible horrible turn of events off our shoulders we decided to continue as planned. We fermented for a full 2 weeks untill we had no activity in the airlock, and, on the suggestion of the 'lets brew' store let it sit for an extra 2 days, however this is all a moot point seeing as how we did not actually know the starting gravity.
So bottling day came (HuzzaH!) and 2 bottles in the darn capper broke. so 50 minutes later we finished bottling the rest of the beer (after we bought a new capper).
Now i actually get to my question. we primed the unbottled beer by adding equal parts corn sugar and boiling water (less than a cup each) and mixed, then bottled. Now (2 days later) I can see a distinct layer of sediment on the bottom of the bottles. My questions are
A) will this batch kill me?
B) Did we just bottle too early?
Thank you all for powering through this epic tale of.......... bad..... technique... And your help is apprecieated!