I brewed yesterday a Belgian Dubbel (first time) and I'm not sure if I messed it up, here's the abridged verson.
Mashed at 150* but it dropped down to 142* when I stirred the grains so I added hot water to bring it back up to 150*. I let it mash for 75 minutes total to make up for the lost heat.
Tried to raise the temp to 170* to mash out but ran out of room in the mash cooler, ended up at 160*.
Grains clogged the mesh net so blew the clog out but kept getting clogged so I scooped it out. Ended up with about 8 gallons (mash water, heat water and mashout water)
Boiled for about an 50 minutes then started my 60 minute boil, OG should have been 1.069 but ended up with 1.062.
Ended with a bunch of trub and I added 1/2 gallon of water to reach 5 gallons.
Pitched WLP-530 around 70* around 530pm.
15 hours later no fermentation at all and showing no signs, bubbles or Krausen forming, so I sanitized a bucket and dumped wort in bucket and back in fermentor and got lots of oxygen. Figured that would have been okay since the yeast was not active, hoping it'll help.
Should I get more yeast and throw it in or wait until maybe tonight for any activity, THEN pitch new yeast if no activity?
Thanks guys.
Mashed at 150* but it dropped down to 142* when I stirred the grains so I added hot water to bring it back up to 150*. I let it mash for 75 minutes total to make up for the lost heat.
Tried to raise the temp to 170* to mash out but ran out of room in the mash cooler, ended up at 160*.
Grains clogged the mesh net so blew the clog out but kept getting clogged so I scooped it out. Ended up with about 8 gallons (mash water, heat water and mashout water)
Boiled for about an 50 minutes then started my 60 minute boil, OG should have been 1.069 but ended up with 1.062.
Ended with a bunch of trub and I added 1/2 gallon of water to reach 5 gallons.
Pitched WLP-530 around 70* around 530pm.
15 hours later no fermentation at all and showing no signs, bubbles or Krausen forming, so I sanitized a bucket and dumped wort in bucket and back in fermentor and got lots of oxygen. Figured that would have been okay since the yeast was not active, hoping it'll help.
Should I get more yeast and throw it in or wait until maybe tonight for any activity, THEN pitch new yeast if no activity?
Thanks guys.