Ok, so I made a dumb, dumb mistake over the weekend.
I was brewing a hefeweizen and had made a yeast starter about 2 days in advance. My starter was kept at room temperature, around 75 degrees.
When it was time to pitch the yeast, I didn't shake up the starter. It had about 1/8" of an inch of "trub" in the bottom of the starter and I carefully pitched the liquid and suspended yeast on top, and tossed the "trub" thinking it was just proteins and settled malt stuff. I know, I know, that was most of my yeast!
I left the fermentation chiller a bit warmer to get started, around 73 degrees.
24 hours later I had fermentation and bubbles. This morning it was bubbling pretty furiously, although the blowoff tube is still clean. I adjusted the fermentation chiller back down to about 68 degrees.
So, knowing that I probably underpitched a little bit, will this hurt the beer at all? Should I plan on leaving it in the primary a little longer than 7 days before bottling?
Lastly, I want to thank you all for being so patient with all the questions from new guys like me. Its amazing how friendly and helpful you all are when faced with these similar questions over and over again.
And I did a quick search but didnt' find anything that matched exactly what I was looking for.
I was brewing a hefeweizen and had made a yeast starter about 2 days in advance. My starter was kept at room temperature, around 75 degrees.
When it was time to pitch the yeast, I didn't shake up the starter. It had about 1/8" of an inch of "trub" in the bottom of the starter and I carefully pitched the liquid and suspended yeast on top, and tossed the "trub" thinking it was just proteins and settled malt stuff. I know, I know, that was most of my yeast!
I left the fermentation chiller a bit warmer to get started, around 73 degrees.
24 hours later I had fermentation and bubbles. This morning it was bubbling pretty furiously, although the blowoff tube is still clean. I adjusted the fermentation chiller back down to about 68 degrees.
So, knowing that I probably underpitched a little bit, will this hurt the beer at all? Should I plan on leaving it in the primary a little longer than 7 days before bottling?
Lastly, I want to thank you all for being so patient with all the questions from new guys like me. Its amazing how friendly and helpful you all are when faced with these similar questions over and over again.
And I did a quick search but didnt' find anything that matched exactly what I was looking for.