So this is my second attempt at brewing. My first attempt was incredible! The pale ale all DME kit has caused me not to enjoy commercially bottled beer as I was able to do before.
Now a good friend that has been brewing for a couple of years, gifted me a British Pub Porter from BWC Woodland Hills. His experience is "best homebrew I have ever had". His experience was justification for my second brew.
So, having one brew (in my opinion) that was great, I decided to make it better. Ten gallon SS pot, new DIY 1/2 inch copper wort cooler and new big burner.
Put the copper wort cooler in the wort and killed the boil. No problem, give some more heat and walk away while it comes back to boil. Return to my first boil over. Mistake one.
Flame out and now to cool the wort. Dropped from boil to 85 degrees in approximately five minutes. Just as planned. Now for mistake two. From 85 to 73 in about thirty minutes. New wort cooler is "Type L copper". I think the thick copper doesn't allow for correct heat transfer.
When I transfer from the pot to my 6.5 gallon carboy I immediately observe that my wort has dissipated to about 3.0-3.5 gallons. Disappointed but trudging on I blythely pitch my yeast and just chalk it up to a failure.
This morning I come up with the brilliant idea of just adding more water to the fermenter. Which I did.
Question: Is this brew worth saving or should I wait it out to see if it actually will come around to something I would drink or use for paint thinner?
Specs on the recipe:
Brew in bags with steeping grains
2 pounds (?) DME
.61 oz Target at 60 minutes
.20 oz Challenger at 20 minutes
Irish Moss at 20 minutes
TIA for any info.
Now a good friend that has been brewing for a couple of years, gifted me a British Pub Porter from BWC Woodland Hills. His experience is "best homebrew I have ever had". His experience was justification for my second brew.
So, having one brew (in my opinion) that was great, I decided to make it better. Ten gallon SS pot, new DIY 1/2 inch copper wort cooler and new big burner.
Put the copper wort cooler in the wort and killed the boil. No problem, give some more heat and walk away while it comes back to boil. Return to my first boil over. Mistake one.
Flame out and now to cool the wort. Dropped from boil to 85 degrees in approximately five minutes. Just as planned. Now for mistake two. From 85 to 73 in about thirty minutes. New wort cooler is "Type L copper". I think the thick copper doesn't allow for correct heat transfer.
When I transfer from the pot to my 6.5 gallon carboy I immediately observe that my wort has dissipated to about 3.0-3.5 gallons. Disappointed but trudging on I blythely pitch my yeast and just chalk it up to a failure.
This morning I come up with the brilliant idea of just adding more water to the fermenter. Which I did.
Question: Is this brew worth saving or should I wait it out to see if it actually will come around to something I would drink or use for paint thinner?
Specs on the recipe:
Brew in bags with steeping grains
2 pounds (?) DME
.61 oz Target at 60 minutes
.20 oz Challenger at 20 minutes
Irish Moss at 20 minutes
TIA for any info.