TheBrewinator
Well-Known Member
After my last brew day which was a complete disaster (had friends over and I think we were concentrated on shooting the breeze and drinking beer than brewing) I had what was a perfect brew day until the end yesterday. I was brewing a DIPA I had been planning for a while, hit my mash temps perfect, remember to do everything this time, etc.
When it came time to go from kettle to fermenter, whirlpooling didn't work well and I was getting a lot of trub coming through. I was trying to filter it off, ended up losing the hose and draining wort all over my basement floor, of course the ball valve was locked open which made things worse. I was in panic mode after this, ended up having to dunk my hand in my star san bucket and fish stuff out of the fermenter namely the funnel, ended up starting a siphon with my mouth to finish filling the fermeter and getting wort into my starter jug to suspend and pitch the yeast.
Basically I ended up giving myself every opportunity possible in a panic to ruin this batch after a perfect day. I guess at this point, Ill just have to hope I pitched enough yeast to ward off any infection (was a smack pack stepped up twice, 2L and 4L on a stir plate so there were plenty of yeast) and hope for the best. At least I can take solace in that my fermentation took off in less than 12 hours and was going crazy as of 6 am this morning.
When it came time to go from kettle to fermenter, whirlpooling didn't work well and I was getting a lot of trub coming through. I was trying to filter it off, ended up losing the hose and draining wort all over my basement floor, of course the ball valve was locked open which made things worse. I was in panic mode after this, ended up having to dunk my hand in my star san bucket and fish stuff out of the fermenter namely the funnel, ended up starting a siphon with my mouth to finish filling the fermeter and getting wort into my starter jug to suspend and pitch the yeast.
Basically I ended up giving myself every opportunity possible in a panic to ruin this batch after a perfect day. I guess at this point, Ill just have to hope I pitched enough yeast to ward off any infection (was a smack pack stepped up twice, 2L and 4L on a stir plate so there were plenty of yeast) and hope for the best. At least I can take solace in that my fermentation took off in less than 12 hours and was going crazy as of 6 am this morning.