Railsplitter
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Okay, so I did my first ever homebrew yesterday. It was a classic stout and I believe I did everything correctly. I was anal about making sure I was following the steps in the right order, adding things at the right time, monitoring temps, etc...but I missed a big one!
I somehow misread the instructions and thought that I was supposed to let the malt/grains/hops sit for an hour at 160 degrees. Looking back, I feel like a total *******. How on earth did I think that 160 degrees was the temperature to use for my boil phase? How about 212 degrees...ya know...where the wort will boil.
Anyway, it's past me now. I feel MUCH more comfortable with the brewing process and will knock the next one out of the park. Plus I still had a fantastic time brewing.
I'm assuming my beer is garbage at this point and I should just toss it out...I mean it never came to a full boil. Maybe it hit 170 degrees, but definitely no higher than that. I'm assuming there's a ton of wild yeast and bacteria that I want nothing to do with.
Anyway, minus my extremely rookie mistake, I'm excited to officially have started homebrewing! Cheers!
I somehow misread the instructions and thought that I was supposed to let the malt/grains/hops sit for an hour at 160 degrees. Looking back, I feel like a total *******. How on earth did I think that 160 degrees was the temperature to use for my boil phase? How about 212 degrees...ya know...where the wort will boil.
Anyway, it's past me now. I feel MUCH more comfortable with the brewing process and will knock the next one out of the park. Plus I still had a fantastic time brewing.
I'm assuming my beer is garbage at this point and I should just toss it out...I mean it never came to a full boil. Maybe it hit 170 degrees, but definitely no higher than that. I'm assuming there's a ton of wild yeast and bacteria that I want nothing to do with.
Anyway, minus my extremely rookie mistake, I'm excited to officially have started homebrewing! Cheers!