sleizure
Active Member
Hi all,
Back into brewing after a 10 year hiatus and I've had a great run of 6 brews that have all gone rather well. Switched over to All Grain and quite happy with my results. My Pant size disagrees.
I brewed up an Irish Red Ale a few weeks back, pitched a starter into the carboy and experienced the initial stages of fermentation, all sorts of psychadelia going on inside the carboy when I unzipped an old jacket to peek at it, however very minimal krausen but no bubbling out of the airlock. After 1 week I wondered it stalled and noticed there a definite loss of SG, so forgot about it for another week. I went back again a week later and it was registering the same, so after giving the carboy a swish, trying to bump up the temperature in the room a degree or two, I opted to just throw in a pack of US-05. After 3 days nothing seemed to happen so I decided to just make sure that the seal to the Airlock was good, popped out the bung and noticed through the hole that the seal of my carboy was hanging off. There we go with the cause of why no action as the CO2 was leaking out of it.
I'm not entirely sure what got over me, but I decided it would be a great idea to give the wort a good stir, and then got entirely out of control and started scooping up the yeast cake with the spoon to resuspend it in the liquid. And then sealed around the carboy lid with moving film as it's going to take 6 days to get a new gasket over to me. Ya, I know.
Anyways, 2 days later, the top half of the beer is a darker colour than the bottom, I'm getting all sorts of white spots on the surface. I've resigned to the fact that this beer is going to taste off. The question is what did I do to this in more terms than "You screwed it up!".
I'll still drink it. That will be my punishment - lesson learned.
Back into brewing after a 10 year hiatus and I've had a great run of 6 brews that have all gone rather well. Switched over to All Grain and quite happy with my results. My Pant size disagrees.
I brewed up an Irish Red Ale a few weeks back, pitched a starter into the carboy and experienced the initial stages of fermentation, all sorts of psychadelia going on inside the carboy when I unzipped an old jacket to peek at it, however very minimal krausen but no bubbling out of the airlock. After 1 week I wondered it stalled and noticed there a definite loss of SG, so forgot about it for another week. I went back again a week later and it was registering the same, so after giving the carboy a swish, trying to bump up the temperature in the room a degree or two, I opted to just throw in a pack of US-05. After 3 days nothing seemed to happen so I decided to just make sure that the seal to the Airlock was good, popped out the bung and noticed through the hole that the seal of my carboy was hanging off. There we go with the cause of why no action as the CO2 was leaking out of it.
I'm not entirely sure what got over me, but I decided it would be a great idea to give the wort a good stir, and then got entirely out of control and started scooping up the yeast cake with the spoon to resuspend it in the liquid. And then sealed around the carboy lid with moving film as it's going to take 6 days to get a new gasket over to me. Ya, I know.
Anyways, 2 days later, the top half of the beer is a darker colour than the bottom, I'm getting all sorts of white spots on the surface. I've resigned to the fact that this beer is going to taste off. The question is what did I do to this in more terms than "You screwed it up!".
I'll still drink it. That will be my punishment - lesson learned.