mishadude
Active Member
If it can go wrong it did! I'm brewing up a hefeweizen tonight and so far I've managed to overfill my kettle, creating sticky mess on the garage floor when I added my grains. Next up is a thermometer that looks to be reading 30 degrees high.
After an hour mash the wort was looking very pale and tasted way too thin compared to all my other brews. I don't have any iodine to check starch conversion. But, I took a gravity reading and it came out at 1.024. After that I checked my thermometer in a cup of ice water and it read 75 degrees. The dumb thing read 128 when I shoved it in my mouth.
So, here's my question. Can I salvage this batch by mashing again at the right temp or are the grains done for at this point? If this batch makes it to bottling I'll dance a jig.
After an hour mash the wort was looking very pale and tasted way too thin compared to all my other brews. I don't have any iodine to check starch conversion. But, I took a gravity reading and it came out at 1.024. After that I checked my thermometer in a cup of ice water and it read 75 degrees. The dumb thing read 128 when I shoved it in my mouth.
So, here's my question. Can I salvage this batch by mashing again at the right temp or are the grains done for at this point? If this batch makes it to bottling I'll dance a jig.