Mischief_Brewing
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I was brewing up a Deschutes Mirror Pond clone Sunday and made a couple of mistakes. The first will definitely affect the beer, the second I'm not so sure...
While at the LHBS, I was trying to remember what hops I had in the freezer and mistook columbus for cascade in my brain. I was pretty bummed when I got home but went ahead and used them for bittering and threw in some glacier and sterling as late additions. So much for the clone...
The second mistake was a bit more boneheaded. I misread my thermometer right before doughing in (somehow thought the Celsius side was Fahrenheit and doughed in to 135 degrees). It took me a half hour to get my **** together and get a gallon of boiling water in to bring it up to 152. After an hour at 152/151 I sparged and nailed my gravity.
I was trying to hit 149 for an hour. What should I expect with the half hour at 135 then 1 hour at 152?
While at the LHBS, I was trying to remember what hops I had in the freezer and mistook columbus for cascade in my brain. I was pretty bummed when I got home but went ahead and used them for bittering and threw in some glacier and sterling as late additions. So much for the clone...
The second mistake was a bit more boneheaded. I misread my thermometer right before doughing in (somehow thought the Celsius side was Fahrenheit and doughed in to 135 degrees). It took me a half hour to get my **** together and get a gallon of boiling water in to bring it up to 152. After an hour at 152/151 I sparged and nailed my gravity.
I was trying to hit 149 for an hour. What should I expect with the half hour at 135 then 1 hour at 152?