Added yeast to early

[Mb23]

Hi
Got too excited when starting my first homebrew kit and when instruction said add ingredients. I added yeast to enhancer and extract. Rather than sprinkling yeast at the end. Will this be ok or is it ruined already

 

[mac_1103]

So you're saying that you brewed an extract kit and added the yeast to the boil kettle along with the extract? The yeast is dead. Get another pack quick.

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Definitely NOT ruined, but as mac_1103 says, you need to get another yeast pack as soon as possible!

 

[Mb23]

Thanks guys, shop is 2mins down the road, off I go. It’s been down probably an hour

 

[Mb23]

So you're saying that you brewed an extract kit and added the yeast to the boil kettle along with the extract? The yeast is dead. Get another pack quick.

Yes added it to the boiled water and extract

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

2 minutes away! You lucky bastard! And in case you are still excited on your first brew, make sure the wort has COOLED down to room temperature before you toss it in!

 

[Hoochin'Fool]

Hmmm, what else do we need to tell a first-time brewer to do?

• If you have a refractometer or a hydrometer, take a reading BEFORE adding yeast (and write it down)!
• If you don't have either of those tools, then as long as you get your final volume correct (presumably via adding top-off water), you should be close enough to what the recipe-sheet predicts.
• If you have a cool basement, that'd be the best place to put your fermenter.
• Do not open the fermenter lid to peek at it! Leave it alone for at least 2 weeks!
• If you are bottling, you will need some sugar to get your beer bottles to carbonate. If you added your kit's bottling sugar to the boil in all the excitement, don't sweat it, but do head to this link, and figure out how much more sugar you need! Priming Sugar Calculator (but don't add that until you are ready to bottle!)
• If you are bottling with a hand-held capper, make sure that the bottles you have (assuming you've been saving store-bought beer bottles) work with your capper before you start bottling the whole batch!
• Sign up for BrewersFriend.com, very nice recipe editor, and lotsa handy calculators.

 

[Zambezi Special]

And if you take a reading with a refractometer after pitching yeast, use a correction table

 

[mac_1103]

2 minutes away! You lucky bastard! And in case you are still excited on your first brew, make sure the wort has COOLED down to room temperature before you toss it in!

This is where it would help if the LHBS wasn't quite so close.

 

[Ninoid]

Yeast is a living organism. Imagine how he feels in boil water?

 

[Mb23]

Yeast is a living organism. Imagine how he feels in boil water?

Hopefully it was a quick death

 

[mac_1103]

Yeast is a living organism. Imagine how he feels in boil water?

Imagine how it feels in a loaf of bread in a 400 degree oven. I leavened your dough for you and this is the thanks I get?

 

[Ninoid]

Imagine how it feels in a loaf of bread in a 400 degree oven. I leavened your dough for you and this is the thanks I get?