rtstrider
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Hey all! We all have those days where we have DOH moments lol Well today was one of those days. Long story short I was bottling 5 gallons of Oktoberfest. This was cold crashed to 32F for 48 hours and was freezing cold at the time of bottling. The priming sugar weight called for 116 grams sugar for 5 gallons of beer to get to around 2.5 volumes co2. Well like a dummy I measured that out and boiled with 1 cup of water instead of 2. In doing so it turned to a THICK syrup. I poured it into the bottling bucket and it immediately solidified and went to the bottom. It didn't mix as far as I could tell so I just threw in 110 grams of sugar and stirred it in (no boiling water) because I was pressed for time. So there's two potential issues here. First being an infection since the sugar was not boiled and second being potential overcarbonation. Tbh I'm more worried about potential bottle bombs more than anything else. My question is how many days in should I start checking carbonation? I was thinking checking it every 5 days or so for the next 3-4 weeks then popping it in the fridge once it hits my preferred carbonation level. Downside...It's a lager yeast...W34/70. I had to scrape all of the sugar mixture off the bottom of the bucket so that lets me know it probably wasn't mixed in at all. It was a solid glob and took a plastic scraper to get out of there.
I've searched the forums and have seen the recommendations of pouring the brews back into a secondary and let that ferment out, pasteurize once it hits the carbonation level I want, check every 5 days to see where it's at, etc. In lieu of starting another "I added too much bottling sugar" thread I figured this would be a good spot to at least share each others DOH moments lol. With that said what DOH moments have you had in brewing?
I've searched the forums and have seen the recommendations of pouring the brews back into a secondary and let that ferment out, pasteurize once it hits the carbonation level I want, check every 5 days to see where it's at, etc. In lieu of starting another "I added too much bottling sugar" thread I figured this would be a good spot to at least share each others DOH moments lol. With that said what DOH moments have you had in brewing?