Man, it was one of those kind of days! So this is only my second brew day with some new equipment (pump, conical, glycol chiller). I had a good brew day Sunday and felt confident going in. First 15 mins of the mash was fine then temp dropped to 142 from 150, got it back up quick and then dropped a bit 10 mins later. I have not had to turn the gas back on and stir this many times. Blame it on the weather, it was very windy today. Flame would sometimes go out during the boil too. After mash took awhile to get to boiling. At the 15 min mark, last hops with immersion chiller went in. Always knocks the boiling down for a bit so thought nothing of it, then noticed it was not coming back up. Gas was out! Grabbed the back up and got it going for the last 5 mins. Then hooked up the hoses to the pump and clipped the hose inside top of the kettle to do some small whirl pooling. Clamp came off and wort shooting up! Got it re connected. Then hooked up hoses for the immersion chiller and turned it on, 2 mins in and the exiting hose blew, water everywhere! got the hose off and just let it shoot down the driveway. Got the temp down to just under 100. That is when I usually fill the fermenter (conical or brew bucket) and hook up to chiller and drop to pitching temps. Got the wort in and put in my Tilt so I didn’t forget it and then pitched the yeast!!! Crap!!!! Quickly got it put on the glycol and down to 68 in 20 mins. Oh and a couple of times pulled the hoses and forgot to close the ball valve!!
So now we wait and see how this comes out. New recipe so just a 2 1/2 gallon batch. Wanted to know, what can I expect from pitch to high even though I got it down pretty quick? I guess if there is anything good, I over pitched because used a full pack of US-05 for this small batch.
Here is to better brew days!!!
So now we wait and see how this comes out. New recipe so just a 2 1/2 gallon batch. Wanted to know, what can I expect from pitch to high even though I got it down pretty quick? I guess if there is anything good, I over pitched because used a full pack of US-05 for this small batch.
Here is to better brew days!!!