Gridlocked
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I'm not worried about this batch, but curious to see if anyone else has had a similar experience.
I brewed my first batch where I used my home-grown hops. I had about 12oz of Cascade and 1oz Chinook. The grain bill (5 gallon) was: 11lbs American Two Row, 1lb Golden Promise, 1lb Caramel 80L, and 1/2lb Carapils. The batch went smoothly and I had a starting gravity of 1049.
I suppose I should have used a hop bag but I dumped them right into the kettle and the boil submerged them. I could not use my pot spigot because the leaves clogged the thing so I dumped the batch from the kettle to a pail lined with a strainer and then into the carboy with a funnel.
I'm curious about two things: the color/aesthetic of the beer and the ferment. It was an orange color and unbelievably cloudy. Cloudy like when you put liquid creamer into a cup of coffee. The karusen on top had a very orange top crust. I have had very good luck sprinkling Safle US05 yeast directly on top of my wort, and that's what I did this time. I had airlock action within 12 hours but it slowed considerably after about 24 hrs. I will take a gravity reading tomorrow, so I can't offer that yet, but has anyone had an experience like this when home grown leaf hops are used?
As of tonight, the cloudyness is starting to drop out, and it smelled good when it was fermenting, I'm just wondering why it was so cloudy in the first place. ALSO, I'm going to add some gelatin to the keg so even more of it settles out, but I'm just curious.
1st hop addition:
And the last:
It is the beer right here \/
I was lucky enough to be able to brew 3 batches in 24 hours. The other two had just been pitched so they were not going yet. About 12 hours after I took these, they were going NUTS and ended up blowing off both air locks. Nothing says happy new year like cleaning porter off of the ceiling of the shower. :cross: Blow off tubes were ordered today. Yeah, I don't normally use a 5 gal as a primary, but my 6.5 carboy and 6 gal better bottle were in use. I didn't even think about using the pail that I got with my kit.
I brewed my first batch where I used my home-grown hops. I had about 12oz of Cascade and 1oz Chinook. The grain bill (5 gallon) was: 11lbs American Two Row, 1lb Golden Promise, 1lb Caramel 80L, and 1/2lb Carapils. The batch went smoothly and I had a starting gravity of 1049.
I suppose I should have used a hop bag but I dumped them right into the kettle and the boil submerged them. I could not use my pot spigot because the leaves clogged the thing so I dumped the batch from the kettle to a pail lined with a strainer and then into the carboy with a funnel.
I'm curious about two things: the color/aesthetic of the beer and the ferment. It was an orange color and unbelievably cloudy. Cloudy like when you put liquid creamer into a cup of coffee. The karusen on top had a very orange top crust. I have had very good luck sprinkling Safle US05 yeast directly on top of my wort, and that's what I did this time. I had airlock action within 12 hours but it slowed considerably after about 24 hrs. I will take a gravity reading tomorrow, so I can't offer that yet, but has anyone had an experience like this when home grown leaf hops are used?
As of tonight, the cloudyness is starting to drop out, and it smelled good when it was fermenting, I'm just wondering why it was so cloudy in the first place. ALSO, I'm going to add some gelatin to the keg so even more of it settles out, but I'm just curious.
1st hop addition:
And the last:
It is the beer right here \/
I was lucky enough to be able to brew 3 batches in 24 hours. The other two had just been pitched so they were not going yet. About 12 hours after I took these, they were going NUTS and ended up blowing off both air locks. Nothing says happy new year like cleaning porter off of the ceiling of the shower. :cross: Blow off tubes were ordered today. Yeah, I don't normally use a 5 gal as a primary, but my 6.5 carboy and 6 gal better bottle were in use. I didn't even think about using the pail that I got with my kit.
These hops were good and dry. I had considered that the color may be from the lupulin, but wasn't sure.
