FlyFisherman
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I'm a newbie to this hobby and decided to try the Brewers Best double IPA as my first batch.
First off I'd like to say that the instructions with this kit is vague at best and pretty much suck. I followed them as closely as I thought possible but the main thing I did not understand was the part where it says to try not to transfer the heavy scrub into the fermentation bucket and I think this is the part where I screwed up the batch.
What the heck do they mean by "heavy scrub" ? Not once in their instructions do they mention using filter bags when adding ingredients to the wort and they say to sprinkle the hop pellets right in. So I came into this forum and read in another thread that people were recommending that someone else should just dump everything right into the ferment bucket which is what I decided to do.
So to make a long story a little shorter, today I transferred the batch into the carboy for the 2nd ferment and have to say it looks like nothing I would ever even consider drinking a cup full of and it has a sour taste and smell(yes I tasted it). There was darn close to an inch of something accumulated on the bottom of the primary fermenter bucket which I dumped behind my shed. Now the batch is in the carboy and I can see so much stuff floating in it that it appears that 2 weeks will be nowhere near enough for it to clear, to me it looks like an awesome batch of homemade apple cider.
So I guess if I'm trying to ask one specific question it would be should I just dump it now or is it worth proceeding to the bottling stage ?
First off I'd like to say that the instructions with this kit is vague at best and pretty much suck. I followed them as closely as I thought possible but the main thing I did not understand was the part where it says to try not to transfer the heavy scrub into the fermentation bucket and I think this is the part where I screwed up the batch.
What the heck do they mean by "heavy scrub" ? Not once in their instructions do they mention using filter bags when adding ingredients to the wort and they say to sprinkle the hop pellets right in. So I came into this forum and read in another thread that people were recommending that someone else should just dump everything right into the ferment bucket which is what I decided to do.
So to make a long story a little shorter, today I transferred the batch into the carboy for the 2nd ferment and have to say it looks like nothing I would ever even consider drinking a cup full of and it has a sour taste and smell(yes I tasted it). There was darn close to an inch of something accumulated on the bottom of the primary fermenter bucket which I dumped behind my shed. Now the batch is in the carboy and I can see so much stuff floating in it that it appears that 2 weeks will be nowhere near enough for it to clear, to me it looks like an awesome batch of homemade apple cider.
So I guess if I'm trying to ask one specific question it would be should I just dump it now or is it worth proceeding to the bottling stage ?