I am addicted and ready to start another batch!
Just got finished kegging (corny keg) my first batch, a SCBS Blonde Ale. Taste seemed really good, nice and dry with some bitterness and hops aroma.
I need to work on my racking skills because I picked up some yeast. Also the first inch or two of the top had floaters about the size of sand, some of which got racked in as I got to the end of the transfer. I left 20-25 oz of beer left in the fermentation bucket when I stopped racking so I could keep as much of the floaters out as possible.
I figure that whirlpooling and straining the wort after chilling will help with some of the extra trube I got this round.
I added gelatin to the keg and then racked the beer (is it beer yet?) into the keg, purged, and topped it off at 30 psi. But.......
My OG was 1.050 and today's was 1.010. Recipe says OG 1.042 FG 1.008, but I did not account for the additional water for final wort volume for OG and jumped the gun on to kegging before hitting the correct FG. I think I only had to add 1/2-3/4 gallon of water to bring the final boil volume up to 5.5 gallons. Had a primary of 15 days, kept temps 63 F for a week then brought it up to 66 F for the next 8 days. (partial extract recipe kit, centennial hops, safale 04)
Just got too excited to keg it today and went off of memory instead of checking my notes and the recipe. I got reading some other posts after I was done and should have waited 21-28 days before racking out of primary. That, and crash cooling in the primary, would have cleared it up better and given me a better FG. So, I'm going to let it sit in the keg for two weeks at room temperature before I do anything else. I wasn't planning on a secondary but looks like I have one now!
I don't plan on racking out of this keg, however, I plan on just waiting the time, popping the lid to take a sample for FG, then pressure up for force carbing and serving. I expect the trube I get from this secondary will be fine to flush out instead of racking.
What do you think?
Just got finished kegging (corny keg) my first batch, a SCBS Blonde Ale. Taste seemed really good, nice and dry with some bitterness and hops aroma.
I need to work on my racking skills because I picked up some yeast. Also the first inch or two of the top had floaters about the size of sand, some of which got racked in as I got to the end of the transfer. I left 20-25 oz of beer left in the fermentation bucket when I stopped racking so I could keep as much of the floaters out as possible.
I figure that whirlpooling and straining the wort after chilling will help with some of the extra trube I got this round.
I added gelatin to the keg and then racked the beer (is it beer yet?) into the keg, purged, and topped it off at 30 psi. But.......
My OG was 1.050 and today's was 1.010. Recipe says OG 1.042 FG 1.008, but I did not account for the additional water for final wort volume for OG and jumped the gun on to kegging before hitting the correct FG. I think I only had to add 1/2-3/4 gallon of water to bring the final boil volume up to 5.5 gallons. Had a primary of 15 days, kept temps 63 F for a week then brought it up to 66 F for the next 8 days. (partial extract recipe kit, centennial hops, safale 04)
Just got too excited to keg it today and went off of memory instead of checking my notes and the recipe. I got reading some other posts after I was done and should have waited 21-28 days before racking out of primary. That, and crash cooling in the primary, would have cleared it up better and given me a better FG. So, I'm going to let it sit in the keg for two weeks at room temperature before I do anything else. I wasn't planning on a secondary but looks like I have one now!
I don't plan on racking out of this keg, however, I plan on just waiting the time, popping the lid to take a sample for FG, then pressure up for force carbing and serving. I expect the trube I get from this secondary will be fine to flush out instead of racking.
What do you think?
