Brulian
Amateur Brewman
Hi all,
So yesterday I attempted my 1st ever brew. Im using a beer brewing kit with hops and barley extract. In the instructions it says that a minimun size pot of 5L should be used(stainless steal), which I have (next time im going to buy a larger pot).
I placed 3L of water to boil and then added the 1.5kg Ale kit and 1kg of brew hancer, lowered the temp to bring boil to a simmer. Everything was going well then all of a sudden a huge amount of foam from the boil appeared and the liquid started to boil over, not wanting the thick liquid to spill all over my stove and kitchen i threw an amount of the boil into the sink, im not sure of how much but maybe around 700ml to 1L.
Off to a bad start. The way i tried to compensate was to fill my fermention bucket to around 21L instead of the recommended 22L.
My OG was 1033 (ideal for this kit was 1036). This morning I woke up at 5am and i wanted to check the temp and noticed that my airlock was bubbling (im assuming thats a good sign considering what happened).
What do you think the affect of this will have on the final outcome? Any thoughts?
So yesterday I attempted my 1st ever brew. Im using a beer brewing kit with hops and barley extract. In the instructions it says that a minimun size pot of 5L should be used(stainless steal), which I have (next time im going to buy a larger pot).
I placed 3L of water to boil and then added the 1.5kg Ale kit and 1kg of brew hancer, lowered the temp to bring boil to a simmer. Everything was going well then all of a sudden a huge amount of foam from the boil appeared and the liquid started to boil over, not wanting the thick liquid to spill all over my stove and kitchen i threw an amount of the boil into the sink, im not sure of how much but maybe around 700ml to 1L.
Off to a bad start. The way i tried to compensate was to fill my fermention bucket to around 21L instead of the recommended 22L.
My OG was 1033 (ideal for this kit was 1036). This morning I woke up at 5am and i wanted to check the temp and noticed that my airlock was bubbling (im assuming thats a good sign considering what happened).
What do you think the affect of this will have on the final outcome? Any thoughts?