Sorry for the slow response. We did chill it plenty. We let the wort sit for a whole before pitching to ensure proper cooling but now that you mention it, we didn't aerate right before pitching as we were headed out the door for a super bowl party. I was told not to aerate after pitching so I...
Me and my buddy have done quite a few batches of wine for the holidays and now have been working on our first batch of beer. It is a Winter Spice Amber Ale. Starting gravity was 1.042. My recipe says to rack it out of the primary at 1.020. We took 10 days in the primary to reach that (we are...