slafaive
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First post here!!
Anyway, my first batch ever (pale ale) has been fermenting for five days now, and I opened it today to check the gravity (the stopper quit burping about a day ago). First off I noticed that there is a bunch of sediment mud ringing the barrel at the top. This worries me since I thought sediment was supposed to settle at the bottom. Now I'm worried that everything didn't mix well enough.
Another problem arouse when I noticed today that I actually forgot an ingredient!!! My kit called for adding two large cans of malt syrup (sorry, don't have exact weights with me now) "and/or" a bag of dried malt extract. It's the dried malt extract that I forgot. Would that just affect the flavor, and if so, how much would you think it would affect it? Since the instructions said "and/or" DME, I'm hoping it wasn't necessary.
Right now the gravity is 1.020 and it should 1.016. This confuses me further because shouldn't the gravity be really low if I forgot to add a bag of DME? Either way, I closed it back up and will let it sit for another day or two.
Overall, I would like to know if the sediment at the top is bad and if leaving out the DME will make my batch taste like crap. It smells like beer anyway
Thanks!
Anyway, my first batch ever (pale ale) has been fermenting for five days now, and I opened it today to check the gravity (the stopper quit burping about a day ago). First off I noticed that there is a bunch of sediment mud ringing the barrel at the top. This worries me since I thought sediment was supposed to settle at the bottom. Now I'm worried that everything didn't mix well enough.
Another problem arouse when I noticed today that I actually forgot an ingredient!!! My kit called for adding two large cans of malt syrup (sorry, don't have exact weights with me now) "and/or" a bag of dried malt extract. It's the dried malt extract that I forgot. Would that just affect the flavor, and if so, how much would you think it would affect it? Since the instructions said "and/or" DME, I'm hoping it wasn't necessary.
Right now the gravity is 1.020 and it should 1.016. This confuses me further because shouldn't the gravity be really low if I forgot to add a bag of DME? Either way, I closed it back up and will let it sit for another day or two.
Overall, I would like to know if the sediment at the top is bad and if leaving out the DME will make my batch taste like crap. It smells like beer anyway
Thanks!