mikeysab
Well-Known Member
Wow, what an experience. So I just got my second batch into the fermenter. It's a Coopers Wheat beer extract kit, with 500 mg LDME, and roughly 300 g dextrose. Basically, the "full kit". I followed the instructions to a t last time, and added boiling water, and I pitched the yeast too warm, so this time, I used hot water, below boiling. I thought I was in the clear. I added the can of extract and it dissolved fine, then the problems started. When I added the bag of DME, it all clumped up. I couldn't break up the clumps with the spoon, so I used an unsanitized whisk. I got 99 percent of the clumps broken up and dissolved, which took 10 minutes. Then I started adding water, and with every inch of water I added, I stirred up an inch of foam. I tried everything to reduce the foam, but nothing worked. so by the time I got to the 23 liter mark, the foam was up to the top of the fermenter. I used the spoon to remove some of the foam, but then thought maybe that wasn't such a good idea, so I let it sit for a couple of minutes, then remembered that I need to pitch the yeast pretty quickly, so I sprinkled the yeast on top of the foam, covered it up and sat it in a water bath at 25 c (77 F) Can someone please help and let me know if there's anything I should do, besides get the temp down? Or am I worrying for no reason? Thanks in advance for any help.