Noleafclover
Well-Known Member
So...
I've made this recipe before... It's an american wheat with a flaked maize twist. However, this last time, I had shut off all outside garden hose connections for the winter. I had also replaced the kitchen sink faucet in the same week.
So, when I brewed this beer I had no connections available to my wort chiller. None. I thought, "Fortunately it just snowed so I'll cart my boil kettle around to snow piles."
That doesn't work well. I'd have just been better off to rack to primary and let it sit overnight.
But me I'm stuck, gotta get it chilled. So I moved it around to different snow piles until 2:30 am. At 2:30 am I'm at 98 degrees still.
So I'm tired, under a few homebrews, and say "Screw it, I'm just gonna pitch and see what happens."
So I aerate, pitch my started, cap it, and then go to bed about 3:15 am.
Late night.
In any case, I just got to taste the fruits of that bad batch.... The aroma was sulfur... it smelled like some stanky fart. I was not surprised because I pitched the yeast way warm.
But the tasted was great. It tasted totally different than the aroma. I thought that was weird honestly... but whatever, it tastes good. I'll give it a coupla weeks and see what happens.
In any case had to share. Was interesting pitching hot.
- Noleaf
I've made this recipe before... It's an american wheat with a flaked maize twist. However, this last time, I had shut off all outside garden hose connections for the winter. I had also replaced the kitchen sink faucet in the same week.
So, when I brewed this beer I had no connections available to my wort chiller. None. I thought, "Fortunately it just snowed so I'll cart my boil kettle around to snow piles."
That doesn't work well. I'd have just been better off to rack to primary and let it sit overnight.
But me I'm stuck, gotta get it chilled. So I moved it around to different snow piles until 2:30 am. At 2:30 am I'm at 98 degrees still.
So I'm tired, under a few homebrews, and say "Screw it, I'm just gonna pitch and see what happens."
So I aerate, pitch my started, cap it, and then go to bed about 3:15 am.
Late night.
In any case, I just got to taste the fruits of that bad batch.... The aroma was sulfur... it smelled like some stanky fart. I was not surprised because I pitched the yeast way warm.
But the tasted was great. It tasted totally different than the aroma. I thought that was weird honestly... but whatever, it tastes good. I'll give it a coupla weeks and see what happens.
In any case had to share. Was interesting pitching hot.
- Noleaf