DJBod129
Well-Known Member
Background:
First Batch! I just bought an equipment kit, which came with a free beer kit also. Sunday night I followed the instructions that came with the kit and got everything into the primary to start fermenting. I took a gravity reading, and it was on the low side... It was late, I was tired, so I sealed it up and put it in my basement closet to ferment.
Well, it turns out that the gravity was low because I misread an "and/or" as an "or" and neglected to put in the dry ME along with the liquid ME. If I continue to let it ferment, bottle, etc. I would end up with a very hoppy, very bitter "beer" at 2.5% ABV. Boo.
My solution:
I will boil up about a gallon of water, with the DME in it, cool it, and add it to the fermenter and let it work its magic along with what is already in there. It might water the beer down a bit, but at least it will become more like beer, and less like what I imagine drinking cider vinegar to be....
Question:
Should I also add more yeast to it as well? I was thinking that I might add some more ale yeast to it (since the kit had a dry yeast packet, and the store gave me a Wyeast smack pack, which I used). Thoughts?
First Batch! I just bought an equipment kit, which came with a free beer kit also. Sunday night I followed the instructions that came with the kit and got everything into the primary to start fermenting. I took a gravity reading, and it was on the low side... It was late, I was tired, so I sealed it up and put it in my basement closet to ferment.
Well, it turns out that the gravity was low because I misread an "and/or" as an "or" and neglected to put in the dry ME along with the liquid ME. If I continue to let it ferment, bottle, etc. I would end up with a very hoppy, very bitter "beer" at 2.5% ABV. Boo.
My solution:
I will boil up about a gallon of water, with the DME in it, cool it, and add it to the fermenter and let it work its magic along with what is already in there. It might water the beer down a bit, but at least it will become more like beer, and less like what I imagine drinking cider vinegar to be....
Question:
Should I also add more yeast to it as well? I was thinking that I might add some more ale yeast to it (since the kit had a dry yeast packet, and the store gave me a Wyeast smack pack, which I used). Thoughts?