So here's the story:
So I am making my fist brew "ever" and I am attempting an Imperial Russian Stout (my new love). So things are going well, its boiling, I am strutting around the the apt. with my Stone IRS touting I am the next Greg Koch. So flame out happens, I add the hops, stir, and put in filtered ice and filtered water to bump it back up to 1 gallon (a 1 gallon brew if that didn't tip you off). So as I put the ice in (from sanitized ice trays) I have one ice cube splash in and burn the crap outta my arm, so in a rush I put them in a bowl (unsanitized) while holding the rest of the ice cubes from falling onto the counter (unsanitized hands) and then go from bowl to kettle then into the sink with cold water to cool down under 80*. I wait till about 81* and aerate by racking the wort from the top of my counter in my bottling bucket to floor height in my fermenting bucket. THEN I put 60% of my liquid yeast into the fermenting bucket but the "thicker" yeast is surrounding the threads of the vial and stuck in the cap so I dump the whole thing into the bucket . I put the air sealed lid with air lock onto the bucket and stick it into my closet, 60* at the moment but runs at 69* on average. So am I screwed on my first batch or what? I am really pissed right now......
So I am making my fist brew "ever" and I am attempting an Imperial Russian Stout (my new love). So things are going well, its boiling, I am strutting around the the apt. with my Stone IRS touting I am the next Greg Koch. So flame out happens, I add the hops, stir, and put in filtered ice and filtered water to bump it back up to 1 gallon (a 1 gallon brew if that didn't tip you off). So as I put the ice in (from sanitized ice trays) I have one ice cube splash in and burn the crap outta my arm, so in a rush I put them in a bowl (unsanitized) while holding the rest of the ice cubes from falling onto the counter (unsanitized hands) and then go from bowl to kettle then into the sink with cold water to cool down under 80*. I wait till about 81* and aerate by racking the wort from the top of my counter in my bottling bucket to floor height in my fermenting bucket. THEN I put 60% of my liquid yeast into the fermenting bucket but the "thicker" yeast is surrounding the threads of the vial and stuck in the cap so I dump the whole thing into the bucket . I put the air sealed lid with air lock onto the bucket and stick it into my closet, 60* at the moment but runs at 69* on average. So am I screwed on my first batch or what? I am really pissed right now......