Last night my wife and I brewed NB AK-47 Pale Mild, we are trying to find a good beer to bring to a gathering of Miller Drinkers which won't scare them away. We brewed and have since bottled the first experimental weaker beer which was the NB Cream ALe.
For some reason both of them had some weird white haze, for lack of a better term, suspended in the middle of the kettle. After cooling. THe Cream Ale I said screw it and just dumped most of it in while leaving the sludge on the bottom. Last night my wife started to worry about me pouring this mass again into the fermenter, even though we had just done this. So I didn't. THis left probably about 2 to 3 pints of wort in the kettle.
I topped off with water to reach the 5 gallon point, shook the hell out of it and then took a reading. The kits says the gravity should have been 1.036 and I think I got 1.03(im not entirely sure how to read my hydrometer).
I am assuming this is due to leaving the wort in the kettle.
So my questions are, should I have just said screw it and not listened to my wife and poured everything, minus the hop sludge at the bottom?
Is this weird white haze due to me not chilling is fast enough, I used an ice bath and left it in for about a half and hour, changing out the ice bath once. I have used this technique for all four of my batches and the first two had no haze.
WIth an OG that low have i just created Barley pop with a dash of alcohol?
Is there anyway to increase the gravity after the yeast has been added yet not before an visible signs of fermentation occurs. We brewed this at 7pm CST on Sunday?
The kit calls for 2 weeks in primary and then straight into bottles. I have decided that I was going to try to leave it in for 3 weeks since that seems to be the consensus on this site. Should I rack to secondary and dry hop for flavor? Or should I bottle at three weeks and drink it quickly so as to not leave any evidence of crappy beer I brewed.
Sorry for the length, I'm quite the noob. This is my fourth batch.
For some reason both of them had some weird white haze, for lack of a better term, suspended in the middle of the kettle. After cooling. THe Cream Ale I said screw it and just dumped most of it in while leaving the sludge on the bottom. Last night my wife started to worry about me pouring this mass again into the fermenter, even though we had just done this. So I didn't. THis left probably about 2 to 3 pints of wort in the kettle.
I topped off with water to reach the 5 gallon point, shook the hell out of it and then took a reading. The kits says the gravity should have been 1.036 and I think I got 1.03(im not entirely sure how to read my hydrometer).
I am assuming this is due to leaving the wort in the kettle.
So my questions are, should I have just said screw it and not listened to my wife and poured everything, minus the hop sludge at the bottom?
Is this weird white haze due to me not chilling is fast enough, I used an ice bath and left it in for about a half and hour, changing out the ice bath once. I have used this technique for all four of my batches and the first two had no haze.
WIth an OG that low have i just created Barley pop with a dash of alcohol?
Is there anyway to increase the gravity after the yeast has been added yet not before an visible signs of fermentation occurs. We brewed this at 7pm CST on Sunday?
The kit calls for 2 weeks in primary and then straight into bottles. I have decided that I was going to try to leave it in for 3 weeks since that seems to be the consensus on this site. Should I rack to secondary and dry hop for flavor? Or should I bottle at three weeks and drink it quickly so as to not leave any evidence of crappy beer I brewed.
Sorry for the length, I'm quite the noob. This is my fourth batch.
