I bought the winter warmer PM kit from Austin Homebrew Supply (great kit/ingredients btw). Was really psyched about this one but something went horribly wrong
OG suggested 1.072. Mine? 1.054. Fantastic.
I followed the directions to the T -except- I decided to do late extract addition. Adding 8 lbs. extra pale liquid extract at the end of the boil definitely slowed things down, and possible interfered with my last two hop additions. It took forever to get the boil going again and I don't think the 15 or 5 minute hops really boiled in at all.
When the wort was cooled, I didn't see any protein break and there was so much hop leafs floating around I could hardly siphon it up. No trub just a big mess of wort floating around.
As far as the mash goes, grain bag + stainless steel pot in the oven at 150 (mash 153) for 45 minutes...as per instructions. Proceeded to trickle 175f water over a strainer @ 1 quart per 2 lbs. grain afterwards. I probably should have gone an hour on the mash.
Bad, bad and bad. That sucked.
Is there a chance this will be drinkable?
OG suggested 1.072. Mine? 1.054. Fantastic.
I followed the directions to the T -except- I decided to do late extract addition. Adding 8 lbs. extra pale liquid extract at the end of the boil definitely slowed things down, and possible interfered with my last two hop additions. It took forever to get the boil going again and I don't think the 15 or 5 minute hops really boiled in at all.
When the wort was cooled, I didn't see any protein break and there was so much hop leafs floating around I could hardly siphon it up. No trub just a big mess of wort floating around.
As far as the mash goes, grain bag + stainless steel pot in the oven at 150 (mash 153) for 45 minutes...as per instructions. Proceeded to trickle 175f water over a strainer @ 1 quart per 2 lbs. grain afterwards. I probably should have gone an hour on the mash.
Bad, bad and bad. That sucked.
Is there a chance this will be drinkable?