Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum and to homebrewing. I just brewed my first batch, and I had a few problems along the way. I'm just wondering if I should dump it and start over, and also if you guys had any insight as to what went wrong.
So I brewed a weizenbier from the brewer's best kid. The recipe is here
http://www.brewersbestkits.com/pdf/1030_Weizenbier.pdf
After I added the wort to the fermenter and add water to get it up to the full 5 gallons. My OG reading was extremely low. It was 1.01 which is what the FG is supposed to be. The only thing that stuck out to me during the boil process was that it was extremely difficult to get a boil and maintain it. Also, during the cooling process took extermely long as I was unprepared and just tried to alternate it in baths of water from the sink.
So with that, I still went ahead. I'm using the ale pail with the standard airlock that comes with the Brewer's Best deluxe kit. The next day, I come home from work and the entire lid of the pail has come off. Is it just because I didn't have the lid fully secure initially? It seems odd that so much pressure would build up to pop the lid off. The airlock was definitely bubbling right after I put the lid on the previous day. Does the airlock ever get clogged?
Also, should I just dump this batch? In general does the beer go bad when it's exposed to oxygen during fermentation?
Thanks
So I brewed a weizenbier from the brewer's best kid. The recipe is here
http://www.brewersbestkits.com/pdf/1030_Weizenbier.pdf
After I added the wort to the fermenter and add water to get it up to the full 5 gallons. My OG reading was extremely low. It was 1.01 which is what the FG is supposed to be. The only thing that stuck out to me during the boil process was that it was extremely difficult to get a boil and maintain it. Also, during the cooling process took extermely long as I was unprepared and just tried to alternate it in baths of water from the sink.
So with that, I still went ahead. I'm using the ale pail with the standard airlock that comes with the Brewer's Best deluxe kit. The next day, I come home from work and the entire lid of the pail has come off. Is it just because I didn't have the lid fully secure initially? It seems odd that so much pressure would build up to pop the lid off. The airlock was definitely bubbling right after I put the lid on the previous day. Does the airlock ever get clogged?
Also, should I just dump this batch? In general does the beer go bad when it's exposed to oxygen during fermentation?
Thanks