Big Ol' Hefer

[xcesthrust]

First off I am very new to homebrewing, I've only brewed one TrueBrew kit. For my second brew ever I tried to make a recipe up by tweaking a recipe on brewtoad for a strong hefeweizen. It's ended up a bit too strong with an OG of 1.092… I didn't use a yeast starter and I'm going out of town tomorrow morning for 5 days so I'm worried about it stalling out while I'm away. Is it going to be a dud, is there hope, is this ridiculous, should I do something before I leave? I have no yeast at home except the cooking variety

 

[GilSwillBasementBrews]

As long as you got yeast in there after cooling all you can really do at this point is wait and see. I think it will be fine. Might have slight off flavors from under pitching into a high gravity wort. But if nothing else you still made beer. Imperial Hefe perhaps???

 

[xcesthrust]

Perhaps I'll change the name to "Holy Cow Imperial Hefer"! Thanks for the input; if it turns out well I'll put the recipe up.

 

[xcesthrust]

I was able to cool it to about 72 before pitching the yeast and have it set up in my new fancy Craigslist refrigerator/controller combo so I'm happy.