cghinds
Active Member
So I brewed a true brew red ale kit tonight but I was adding to it and think I may have screwed the pooch if you know what I mean.
1st. I cooled my Wort for about an hour and a half I added it to the fermenting bucket where I cooled it a little more with some cold water from the tap... thinking that was cool enough (and having a few to many HB's) I pitched my yeast. My wife being the sober one in the family checked on it for me while I was cleaning up. She thought it was to warm.
2nd. when I took a hydrometer reading it read well over 1.170 which is the final number on my hydrometer. The hydrometer reading was taken after the wort was added to 3 gallons of cool water.
So here's what I did, I used everything in the True brew kit
Hopped Light Malt Extract (1 can)
Unhopped Light Malt Extract (1 can)
Melanoidin Malt Grain (4 oz)
Grain Steeping Bag
Hop Pellets (1 oz)
Nottingham lg pack
Priming Sugar (5 oz)
on top of this I added a 3/4 pound of muntons extra light.
and a pound of Honey...
I did my boil as normal but I added the honey and the mutons late in the boil (the last 3 min) I also added my priming sugar to the boil (as suggested by my LHBS owner)
should I be concerned about
A) the temp at the time I pitched
or (B) the Hydrometer reading
1st. I cooled my Wort for about an hour and a half I added it to the fermenting bucket where I cooled it a little more with some cold water from the tap... thinking that was cool enough (and having a few to many HB's) I pitched my yeast. My wife being the sober one in the family checked on it for me while I was cleaning up. She thought it was to warm.
2nd. when I took a hydrometer reading it read well over 1.170 which is the final number on my hydrometer. The hydrometer reading was taken after the wort was added to 3 gallons of cool water.
So here's what I did, I used everything in the True brew kit
Hopped Light Malt Extract (1 can)
Unhopped Light Malt Extract (1 can)
Melanoidin Malt Grain (4 oz)
Grain Steeping Bag
Hop Pellets (1 oz)
Nottingham lg pack
Priming Sugar (5 oz)
on top of this I added a 3/4 pound of muntons extra light.
and a pound of Honey...
I did my boil as normal but I added the honey and the mutons late in the boil (the last 3 min) I also added my priming sugar to the boil (as suggested by my LHBS owner)
should I be concerned about
A) the temp at the time I pitched
or (B) the Hydrometer reading