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I tried stealing a couple hours out of my workday to brew yesterday. I just got some new equipment and was impatient. First mistake, dont rush your brew. It was a Coopers Heritage Lager kit that came with LME. Should have been simple.
The new fermenter I got was a 6.5 gallon glass carboy. The Coopers kit makes 6 gallons and I thought that would be too much. I did an eyeball measure and made a small batch in another fermenter. Tweaked it with some other fermentables and ended up with a 1.060 OG. Not bad. Pitched it with some of the Coopers dry yeast and moved on to the main batch. That is where my trouble started. I must have done a poor job of dividing up the mix. The OG was only 1.036 (temp corrected). Out of time, I pitched it with liquid yeast and went back to work, hoping for the best.
After work I checked the progress. The small batch was bubbling fine, but the main batch was dead. Thats when I noticed that I had set out and used the wrong yeast. It was a ale yeast instead of the lager yeast I had planned to use. This morning it has started to bubble, but Im still worried. Here are the questions:
What do you do with the 6 gallon recipes and a fermenter made for 5 gallons?
What am I making, now that my lager has become an ale?
Is the low OG brew worth keeping?
If not, is it possible to bump up the gravity once fermentation has started?
The new fermenter I got was a 6.5 gallon glass carboy. The Coopers kit makes 6 gallons and I thought that would be too much. I did an eyeball measure and made a small batch in another fermenter. Tweaked it with some other fermentables and ended up with a 1.060 OG. Not bad. Pitched it with some of the Coopers dry yeast and moved on to the main batch. That is where my trouble started. I must have done a poor job of dividing up the mix. The OG was only 1.036 (temp corrected). Out of time, I pitched it with liquid yeast and went back to work, hoping for the best.
After work I checked the progress. The small batch was bubbling fine, but the main batch was dead. Thats when I noticed that I had set out and used the wrong yeast. It was a ale yeast instead of the lager yeast I had planned to use. This morning it has started to bubble, but Im still worried. Here are the questions:
What do you do with the 6 gallon recipes and a fermenter made for 5 gallons?
What am I making, now that my lager has become an ale?
Is the low OG brew worth keeping?
If not, is it possible to bump up the gravity once fermentation has started?