The recipes I posted in my recipes link under my avatar ued Munton's plain light DME with Cooper's cans & hops. I like Munton's plain light DME for that classic pale ale color & the English flavor complexities.
Also you probably would have noticed some scorching on the bottom of the pot after you removed the wort.
No scorching whatsoever. My pot is cleaned and stored, looks brand new. If what you say is true, I will not worry over it and will stay strong for the next two days keeping to the plan:
Saturday, 13th (Day 10 - Adjusted due to suggestions to 10 from 7): I will transfer to my carboy and dry hop with my package of Citra.
I just need to work out what actual day is F.G. reading and preparation for bottling. Recipe read 5-7 days primary 5-14 secondary, I believe. One thing at a time though.
No scorching whatsoever. My pot is cleaned and stored, looks brand new. If what you say is true, I will not worry over it and will stay strong for the next two days keeping to the plan:
Saturday, 13th (Day 10 - Adjusted due to suggestions to 10 from 7): I will transfer to my carboy and dry hop with my package of Citra.
I just need to work out what actual day is F.G. reading and preparation for bottling. Recipe read 5-7 days primary 5-14 secondary, I believe. One thing at a time though.
So Saturday makes 10? You can likely check it out on Thursday or Friday. I like to dry hop for about 5 days. I can plan for 5 but if I get busy I know 6 or 7 won't kill me. 7 is absolutely my max just based on what I've read.
It's awesome you're getting back into the hobby! I think once you get a couple tasty brews under your belt all the worry and stress will fade away and confidence will ensue. Then it's on!
Looks like everyone ferments in carboys according to a thread on here. Maybe I should ditch my bucket that came with the kit and just buy some glass carboys tonight. So mad. I want to see what its doing in there.
Looks like everyone ferments in carboys according to a thread on here. Maybe I should ditch my bucket that came with the kit and just buy some glass carboys tonight. So mad. I want to see what its doing in there.
Ok so maybe I should stop researching. I feel like its doing more harm than good. The more I learn, the more it makes me think I do so much wrong.
Just read a few articles on cold crashing and it seems like this is not a good idea for my situation. For one, it sounds like doing it in a refrigerator is a bad idea due to fluctuating temperatures and I likely would not even get it to the required temperature. That being said, maybe this one will have to just get dry hopped and rely on whatever clarity I can get simply by racking to secondary and calling it done. In the future, I can plan on adding a wort chiller to my processes as well as better temperature control during fermentation.
In the future, I can plan on adding a wort chiller to my processes as well as better temperature control during fermentation.
I know a lot of people say skip the secondary right now and just let this one ride, so its confusing to go back and forth thinking about what to do.
Oh yeah. I struggled for over an hour trying to get this one out of the 100+ temp range and down to where it needed to be. After several ice baths and running out of ice in my cube trays that I should've stocked up on, I ended up running to the store and getting two large bags. Waste of ten bucks but it was getting late. I did get to buy a sandwich for a homeless guy though, so it worked out. I am going to stop reading random stuff and just look things up when I have questions I guess. Everyone seems to have all these crazy systems and I have ... a bucket and a thermometer lol.
Going to chill out I guess. Buy an autosiphon tonight. Take a hydrometer reading, if its at 1.011 as recipe suggest... I'll rack it. Leave it be for another week. Dry hop it last 4 days. Cool it in refrigerator for a day and bottle.
I know a lot of people say skip the secondary right now and just let this one ride, so its confusing to go back and forth thinking about what to do. Regardless. I need to get another one going. If I make another one this week, I would imagine with the right recipe I could have it ready for my bachelor party.
IMO dry hop it and remember how much biggier to make the next batch if you do a secondary again.
So just leave what I got into the carboy, let it finish at 4 1/4 gal orso? Call the rest of what I didn't get waste? It sounds like the best thing to me.. just so upsetting.
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