Feel like 2nd brew went crappy.

[saeroner]

Thanks to everyone on this site -- Great place.

I should not have started brewing this IPA recipe (5 gal extract) at 10:30pm last night in the middle of the NFL season kickoff.

Was like 6 beers deep. Everything started good until I got a load of LME covered all over my hand, trying to pour it into the pot, while trying to stir it all in smoothly. I guess I lost a bit of LME. Man it's some really sticky stuff.

Anyways after 55 mins of boiling everything was going good until I covered the pot with the lid (just trying to sterilize it), turned my head to look at the score (NFL) and boom, boil over! Man I hated the burn smell.

Anyways, the cool down went good.

I didn't even bother taking a reading. I left about 20oz less water to the fermenter than the 5 gal mark cause of the loss of LME and boil over -- oh well.

I did have an extra (left over from weeks ago) oz of whole leaf cascades that I threw in a sac and kinda dry hopped during the cool down. the recipe didn't call for that but i figured what the heck - squeezed the bag when the temp hit 75. Everything else went well.

I guess we'll see.

 

[kh54s10]

It should be OK. You should have stuck your hand into the boil kettle to get all the LME goodness. Just kidding.

The flameout addition of the Cascade shouldn't hurt anything.

 

[saeroner]

You should have stuck your hand into the boil kettle to get all the LME goodness.

Lol, trust me i wanted to and my drunken self actually thought about it for a second.

 

[KepowOb]

As far as disaster stories, it seems pretty tame compared to some others here, haha. The late addition cascade will probably add a little something more than the original recipe, so no harm there. Really, I don't see any reason why this won't turn out just fine.

 

[jph2275]

Sounds like a good night, all the same

At least you'll always remember it LOL.

I've done worse. Once I was making my Texas Kolsch and I had a glass thermometer explode in the boil, forgot 3 lbs of DME extract (that I had to add later after I pitched yeast), and added an extra 1/2 gallon of water during top off.

I kegged it, and it came out to be a good drinkable beer. Nothing that I'll miss, but it was definitely better than most SOS beer.

Good luck, I'm sure all is fine.