agroff383
Well-Known Member
Well Saturday I wanted to brew my Austin Homebrew Dusseldorf Altbier session series recipe, and I made my Kolsch starter and was ready to rock. I can only brew outside and I believe I am running out of time to where it won't be 30F outside. Got my steeping grains in, got the extract in, got the burner going and wort was boiling. Meanwhile I decided I would bottle my Franziskaner clone that was ready. Boiling beer outside, in the open (I have no other option), no lid on my keggle, in the fall in southern PA....it can get WINDY.
Yeah I said no lid, I was following advice I have heard on here LOL, I always boil without a lid, and the Bayou Classic kicks some ass and it will boil over with a 5 gal batch with the lid on my keggle.
I came up to put my 15 mins hop addition and irish moss in, and man it looked like I had already put the irish moss in. But it wasn't irish moss. It was...
LEAVES
Yes, a huge wind kicked up brown leaves and they blew into my keggle. I put the hops in and the irish moss in anyway and could not see any whole leaves in the wort, but I assumed they broke into little pieces in the kettle. I could see where the boil came up to the sides of the keggle and it sure as hell wasn't hop pieces stuck on the side. So I finished the boil like a good little brewer and chilled the wort.
The wort tasted like someone put dirt in it. GOD it tasted so bad, I spit it out. I drank 2 Diet Cokes and ate a brownie (Yeah I know a dumb combo but that was what was closest to the sink) and I STILL had the flavor in my mouth.
I sure as hell wasn't going to dump it right then and there I paid 8 bucks for a yeast packet and made a nice starter, not to mention the price of the kit and 5 gal of distilled water. So 12 hrs later it was bubbling right along fermentation took right off.
Did I make leaf beer? I hope it ferments out. This was my LUCKY NUMBER 10 batch I have made since I started, I guess a **** up every 10 batches isn't that bad for a noob!
No matter how it tastes I am not dumping it!
Yeah I said no lid, I was following advice I have heard on here LOL, I always boil without a lid, and the Bayou Classic kicks some ass and it will boil over with a 5 gal batch with the lid on my keggle.
I came up to put my 15 mins hop addition and irish moss in, and man it looked like I had already put the irish moss in. But it wasn't irish moss. It was...
LEAVES
Yes, a huge wind kicked up brown leaves and they blew into my keggle. I put the hops in and the irish moss in anyway and could not see any whole leaves in the wort, but I assumed they broke into little pieces in the kettle. I could see where the boil came up to the sides of the keggle and it sure as hell wasn't hop pieces stuck on the side. So I finished the boil like a good little brewer and chilled the wort.
The wort tasted like someone put dirt in it. GOD it tasted so bad, I spit it out. I drank 2 Diet Cokes and ate a brownie (Yeah I know a dumb combo but that was what was closest to the sink) and I STILL had the flavor in my mouth.
I sure as hell wasn't going to dump it right then and there I paid 8 bucks for a yeast packet and made a nice starter, not to mention the price of the kit and 5 gal of distilled water. So 12 hrs later it was bubbling right along fermentation took right off.
Did I make leaf beer? I hope it ferments out. This was my LUCKY NUMBER 10 batch I have made since I started, I guess a **** up every 10 batches isn't that bad for a noob!
No matter how it tastes I am not dumping it!
