Demondefender
New Member
Hi all,
First time brewer here, and I'm looking for that warm fuzzy that comes with asking the right questions.
Ok, bare with me here I'm going to step by step myself to make sure if I messed anything up, yall can tell me.
Started off with a yeast starter, 1 vial of White labs California ale yeast, 750 ml water and 3.4 oz amber DME. Boiled the water and dme in 1000 ml Pyrex flask. Cooled it to 75 degrees F, pitched yeast and put on stir plate, with porous foam stopper in top of flask. Ran for 24 hours. Cooled in fridge for 12 hours. Decanted to 300 ml and put back on stir plate as I started my brew.
Started brew. 2 gal of water to between 153-158 degrees, added one lb of golden Simpson oat to my grains, crushed. Steeped all grains for 26 minutes in muslin bag. Followed recipe to a T after that.
Http://www.midwestsupplies.com/media/downloads/537/BK10020-AmericanHero_Imperial_Stout_Recipe.pdf
Had small hiccup where the nylon bag came detached from pot handle and spilled some hops into the brew.
Primary fermenter, used a 6 gallon Better bottle w/racking attachment. Sanitized every inch of it with star-San. Poured it all in and topped with filtered water to get my 5 gallons, used a sanitized container to transfer water. Put a tennis ball under bottom of BB bottle and rolled it to aerate for about 5 min and mix water. Took hydro reading of 1.102 OG. ( I think this might be off a bit as the kit says 1.088 og, however I did add oats so who knows) Used a 1/2 inch OD tube for blow-off as I forgot to get the BB blow-off cap. Currently only have the BB standard cap.
Fermenting took about 18 hours to be noticeable, now at 30 hours and its got a heavy krausen on top reaching blow-off tube.
Started on 16 Feb 2014, wish to transfer to secondary (Also 6 Gal BB w/racking adapter so I can do a closed transfer and not risk it meeting O2, as ill transfer CO2 3 days prior to transfer) on 1 Mar 2014, I wish to leave it in their till 28 Mar 2014 as ill be out of state on 3 Mar 2014.
Can anyone tell me if I've done anything wrong at this point, or will be given the info I have so far?
First time brewer here, and I'm looking for that warm fuzzy that comes with asking the right questions.
Ok, bare with me here I'm going to step by step myself to make sure if I messed anything up, yall can tell me.
Started off with a yeast starter, 1 vial of White labs California ale yeast, 750 ml water and 3.4 oz amber DME. Boiled the water and dme in 1000 ml Pyrex flask. Cooled it to 75 degrees F, pitched yeast and put on stir plate, with porous foam stopper in top of flask. Ran for 24 hours. Cooled in fridge for 12 hours. Decanted to 300 ml and put back on stir plate as I started my brew.
Started brew. 2 gal of water to between 153-158 degrees, added one lb of golden Simpson oat to my grains, crushed. Steeped all grains for 26 minutes in muslin bag. Followed recipe to a T after that.
Http://www.midwestsupplies.com/media/downloads/537/BK10020-AmericanHero_Imperial_Stout_Recipe.pdf
Had small hiccup where the nylon bag came detached from pot handle and spilled some hops into the brew.
Primary fermenter, used a 6 gallon Better bottle w/racking attachment. Sanitized every inch of it with star-San. Poured it all in and topped with filtered water to get my 5 gallons, used a sanitized container to transfer water. Put a tennis ball under bottom of BB bottle and rolled it to aerate for about 5 min and mix water. Took hydro reading of 1.102 OG. ( I think this might be off a bit as the kit says 1.088 og, however I did add oats so who knows) Used a 1/2 inch OD tube for blow-off as I forgot to get the BB blow-off cap. Currently only have the BB standard cap.
Fermenting took about 18 hours to be noticeable, now at 30 hours and its got a heavy krausen on top reaching blow-off tube.
Started on 16 Feb 2014, wish to transfer to secondary (Also 6 Gal BB w/racking adapter so I can do a closed transfer and not risk it meeting O2, as ill transfer CO2 3 days prior to transfer) on 1 Mar 2014, I wish to leave it in their till 28 Mar 2014 as ill be out of state on 3 Mar 2014.
Can anyone tell me if I've done anything wrong at this point, or will be given the info I have so far?
