Northern Brewer small batch American Wheat Instructions Unclear

abweatherley · Jan 5, 2022

hotbeer said:
When did you add the whirlfloc? At the end of boil or to the fermenter?

Don't trust airlock bubbles to tell you anything. They only have entertainment value.

5 minutes before the end of boil I tossed in about a quarter of a tablet ground up.

GrowleyMonster · Jan 5, 2022

abweatherley said:
I do have a Hydrometer I have an SG of 1.040. The instructions don't tell me what my FG should be. In Brewfather I get an FG of 1.005.

So your SG has gone down a little. That's encouraging. Call it a science experiment. Let it run and see what happens.

hotbeer · Jan 5, 2022

A quarter of a tablet is a little much IMO if these are tablets for 10 to 15 gallon batches and your batch is a gallon or less.

I used less about .3 grams and that was still too much. Though it might have been more than double that with the accuracy error of my current scale.

Probably no harm done though. Just that you don't get the optimum cold break during cooling and wind up with more trub in your fermenter or you have to take great pains and waste trying to strain it before adding to the fermenter.

abweatherley · Jan 5, 2022

GrowleyMonster said:
So your SG has gone down a little. That's encouraging. Call it a science experiment. Let it run and see what happens.

Sorry that was the gravity before I pitched the yeast and I just checked it again and it is still the same.

I have moved it to a warmer area to see if that will help.

GrowleyMonster · Jan 5, 2022

abweatherley said:
Sorry that was the gravity before I pitched the yeast and I just checked it again and it is still the same.

I have moved it to a warmer area to see if that will help.

Hmmm... it should definitely be showing some change. If you have some yeast, you could try re-pitching. If you don't get some action a day after pitching more yeast I would call it a goner. RIP, beer that never quite was.