SOB! What Did I DO????

[Photohype]

I have a question about your boil . Why would you boil the beer after adding in the priming sugar or while adding it in ?
Never heard of anyone doing that is why I ask..

According to the step-by-step directions that came with the ingredient kit, step 12 states, "In a small saucepan dissolve priming sugar into 2 cups of boiling water for 5 minutes. Pour this mixture into a clean bottling bucket. Carefully siphon beer from the fermenter to a bottling bucket..."

I am guessing you misunderstood that I boiled the beer again, not sure how you got that from what I stated, but I only boiled the water with what I thought was priming sugar.

 

[MarcusKillion]

According to the step-by-step directions that came with the ingredient kit, step 12 states, "In a small saucepan dissolve priming sugar into 2 cups of boiling water for 5 minutes. Pour this mixture into a clean bottling bucket. Carefully siphon beer from the fermenter to a bottling bucket..."

I am guessing you misunderstood that I boiled the beer again, not sure how you got that from what I stated, but I only boiled the water with what I thought was priming sugar.

yep that was it . I thought you reboiled the beer with the sugar in it or cleaner as it was .

did you ever smell or taste any of that beer with the cleaner in it ? Just wondering if that 4 oz put any sulfur smell in it .

 

[WileECoyote]

There just ain't no way to blow sunshine up your ass on this one. Dump 'em and start again. Lose your helper too.

+1

Cheers

 

[Photohype]

yep that was it . I thought you reboiled the beer with the sugar in it or cleaner as it was .

did you ever smell or taste any of that beer with the cleaner in it ? Just wondering if that 4 oz put any sulfur smell in it .

I siphoned some of the uncontaminated beer into my hydrometer test tube and later realized that I didn't add enough because the hydrometer was touching the bottom and not floating, so I added more beer (unknowingly contaminated this time) to get the beer level high enough to take my hydrometer reading. After taking the reading, I drank what was in the test tube. It didn't taste awful, just flat. It had roughly the same taste it did a few days ago when I took a hydrometer reading. I thought to myself both times, "this will be really good once it is carbonated". Although it was very little of the contaminated beer that I added to the test tube, it didn't get me sick and I would have never known that I swallowed contaminated beer if I never discovered my mistake.

I don't recall it having any sulfur smell either.

 

[MarcusKillion]

probably was safe to drink . 4 oz of a mild irritant in 5 gallons ? is not much . But I would think when that peroxide started pumping out oxygen it would have messed up the beer .

 

[HermeticHealer]

Hate to say it, but you should dump this one. Everyone here has had to dump a batch, you just got yours out of the way on the first try (I dumped my first one too). Just put it behind you and start working on your next batch.


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[nextgenxx]

Dump it & make your buddy buy you a 24 pack of your favorite beers. Then brew again and try again.


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[Photopilot]

Act proud of it and give it away to a friends who you think might freeload of your beer in the future. He will never ask you to give them beer in the future.

 

[cjgenever]

I'd boil and add some dme to get fermentation going again. Dump it all into the fv and pitch a packet of dry yeast (depending on yeast still in suspension). That might help get rid of the extra o2. Don't know if it would work, just my2¢

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[max384]

I'd boil and add some dme to get fermentation going again. Dump it all into the fv and pitch a packet of dry yeast (depending on yeast still in suspension). That might help get rid of the extra o2. Don't know if it would work, just my2¢

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I just don't think it's worth it. At best, he'll save a batch of beer. At worst he'll have something that will make him physically ill. It would require more work uncapping, dumping out, reboiling, cooling, then adding the priming sugar than to just make a new extract batch, for an end-result of a beer that probably won't taste good and could potentially harm him. I'm just not seeing the upside to trying to save this batch. Dumping beer isn't the worst thing that can happen to a homebrewer.

 

[Homercidal]

That's a dumper for sure! Sucks, but it happens. I bet it won't happen again! There will be a new thing to cause grief next time.

At any rate, I highly recommend StarSan as a sanitizer. So easy to use with a spray bottle and used this way will last for a LONG time. I keep a jug of it mixed with distilled water and top off the spray bottle as needed.

Maybe limit yourself to one beer during the brewing/bottling days. At least until after you're all done.

 

[Photohype]

Maybe limit yourself to one beer during the brewing/bottling days. At least until after you're all done.

That's a great idea. I think I had two beers by that time. You can bet I will triple check the package of priming sugar on my next bottling day which will be on the 29th of this month. I have a Red Ale fermenting in the basement right now and it will be three weeks in the primary on the 29th, which should be good for bottling. I was going to let this ale sit in the primary for 4 weeks, but due to the circumstances of what happened to my English Brown Ale incident, I will bottle the Red Ale one week earlier. This Saturday I will brew an American Cream Ale, and two weeks later I plan on brewing another English Brown Ale to make up for this one I lost.

 

[cjgenever]

I just don't think it's worth it. At best, he'll save a batch of beer. At worst he'll have something that will make him physically ill. It would require more work uncapping, dumping out, reboiling, cooling, then adding the priming sugar than to just make a new extract batch, for an end-result of a beer that probably won't taste good and could potentially harm him. I'm just not seeing the upside to trying to save this batch. Dumping beer isn't the worst thing that can happen to a homebrewer.

No doubt. I agree. Just saying what I would do. I hate losing a batch. Makes me crazy. The best advise is to dump it.

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