So, I brewed my first batch yesterday night, a Irish Red kit from northern brewer. It's sitting fermenting now with bubbles in the airlock every couple second.
I have the A419 set at 16c(60.8F) with the probe attached to the fermenting bucket. Probe is reading 17C(62.6F) with air temp in the room at 59F.
My only concerns are:
1) When I was boiling th wort, I may have had it too high and lost about a half gallon of water. How much of a problem is this.
2) I'm brewing/fermenting at work(my boss is cool haha) and the room I'm fermenting is is well insulated but has no central AC/Heat. Im using a poratble AC unit in there connected to the A419 and it's cooling well but the room still has temperature variations, especially at night, by maybe 3-4 degrees. Is that an acceptable variance?
3) I missed my OG by a little. Northern brewer states OG as 1.044 but I got 1.040-1.042.
All in all, I think my first time went pretty well. Now I just have to be patient.
I have the A419 set at 16c(60.8F) with the probe attached to the fermenting bucket. Probe is reading 17C(62.6F) with air temp in the room at 59F.
My only concerns are:
1) When I was boiling th wort, I may have had it too high and lost about a half gallon of water. How much of a problem is this.
2) I'm brewing/fermenting at work(my boss is cool haha) and the room I'm fermenting is is well insulated but has no central AC/Heat. Im using a poratble AC unit in there connected to the A419 and it's cooling well but the room still has temperature variations, especially at night, by maybe 3-4 degrees. Is that an acceptable variance?
3) I missed my OG by a little. Northern brewer states OG as 1.044 but I got 1.040-1.042.
All in all, I think my first time went pretty well. Now I just have to be patient.