RomanRider
Active Member
Well I had my first boil over. I didn't leave enough head space in my brew pot and she foamed over when I stirred it a few minutes into the boil after first hops addition. What a mess, I lost probably 1/2 gallon or more of wort due to that boil over, all over the stove top and floor. :smack:
So after mopping up the stove top with paper towels, I put the pot back on and continued the boil where I left off. After cooling the wort and transferring into the fermenter I topped up with water to bring it up to a full 5 gallons without taking into consideration the volume of wort that I lost due to the boil over. THEN I checked the SG and it was only 1.045 where the kit instructions indicate it should have been 1.057-1.061. Am I correct that I added too much water and therefore over diluted it? This is a Brewer's Best kit, pumpkin spice porter.
It's been in primary for 10 days, and the gravity is now about 1.016 which is in the FG range for the kit. It smells and tastes pretty good, although it is definitely not sweet or heavy like I would expect it to be if I had the correct starting gravity. I will be bottle conditioning it so that should add a touch of sweetness to it.
What do you think, should I let it sit in primary a bit longer to see if the gravity drops any further, or just go ahead and bottle it and enjoy my accidental session beer?
Just out of curiosity, at this point is there anything that could be done to make it less weak, more robust?
Also, I wasn't sure what to do about having to interrupt the boil. The pot was off the burner for about 15 minutes during partial cleanup, then I got it back on high heat and when it started boiling again I just continued the timer about where I left off. It doesn't seem to have hurt anything that I can tell.
I'm shopping for a larger pot to do full 5 gal boils! There is a local restaurant auction this Saturday, maybe I can score something there.
So after mopping up the stove top with paper towels, I put the pot back on and continued the boil where I left off. After cooling the wort and transferring into the fermenter I topped up with water to bring it up to a full 5 gallons without taking into consideration the volume of wort that I lost due to the boil over. THEN I checked the SG and it was only 1.045 where the kit instructions indicate it should have been 1.057-1.061. Am I correct that I added too much water and therefore over diluted it? This is a Brewer's Best kit, pumpkin spice porter.
It's been in primary for 10 days, and the gravity is now about 1.016 which is in the FG range for the kit. It smells and tastes pretty good, although it is definitely not sweet or heavy like I would expect it to be if I had the correct starting gravity. I will be bottle conditioning it so that should add a touch of sweetness to it.
What do you think, should I let it sit in primary a bit longer to see if the gravity drops any further, or just go ahead and bottle it and enjoy my accidental session beer?
Just out of curiosity, at this point is there anything that could be done to make it less weak, more robust?
Also, I wasn't sure what to do about having to interrupt the boil. The pot was off the burner for about 15 minutes during partial cleanup, then I got it back on high heat and when it started boiling again I just continued the timer about where I left off. It doesn't seem to have hurt anything that I can tell.
I'm shopping for a larger pot to do full 5 gal boils! There is a local restaurant auction this Saturday, maybe I can score something there.