Bad feeling about Beer brew I've just put down
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:27 pm
Ok Guys its been a rough night for me.
I picked up a draft beer kit coopers with the intent to brew it how I've always done with not the best results.
My method was chuck it all in throw it in the shed wait a few weeks put it in a keg.. well the last one was ok but not great.
Anyhow I was in the shed watching my TPW(S) bubbling away nicely with the aquarium heaters I put in them that weekend.
That's when it all started I had my old mini fridge so I decided I'll use that along with a temperature controller and a aquarium heater (in the beer) and have a temp controlled brew.
Possibly a great start to making a lot better beer...
Then I realized none of the fermenters I had fit in the fridge :( so Off to Bunnings and $25 later a new 30L drum that fits :)
Got to work, installed the heater through the lid put in the air lock grommet then went on to sterilising every thing
I warmed up the kit can a little to pour easier, put as little hot water as possible to dissolve the Mangrove Jack's Brewblend #15 (that I was suggested to use instead of sugar) then filled to 23L of water
This is when my night started to turn to shit. I Had it all together hadn't pitched the yeast but couldn't find where I put my air lock after a good solid 15minuits Of stressing and getting angry I gave up on finding my airlock ripped out the heater and seal from the lid put the heater (sprayed with sanitiser) in the brew put some gladwrap for a lid and the seal to hold it on (with the heater flat cord coming out from under the seal) So I put the yeast in around 24c then chucked it in the fridge set the temp controller to 18c so its cooling as I type. I sanitised the living crap out of every thing paranoid about trying to make a good beer (this was my make it good or not do it again batch). So then I thought right where the F*** is this air lock and I started thinking crap I hope its not in the beer! turns out its not.... I found it in my cooling tank for my still! When I was done with my bucked of water/starsan I chucked it in my trough for cooling water not realising the airlock was still in the bucket. at this stage I was just happy it wasn't in the beer.
Like I said I sanitised every thing even the gladwrap for the lid even the can opener and the knife I used to open the yeast packet.
The only 2 down falls I can thing of when I pitched the yeast I nearly dropped the yeast packet in the beer the very corner of the packet just touched the top of the beer
Also I had the lid off the wort for about 10 maybe 15 mins looking for the airlock before pitching yeast :|
The Yeast I used was safale us 05 Dry ale yeast
I've never done a beer with anything other than the kit and a 1kg of sugar
I'm used to Sugar washes where I don't sanitise a thing and they always turn out good
Anyway Thanks for taking the time to read what do you all thing
I picked up a draft beer kit coopers with the intent to brew it how I've always done with not the best results.
My method was chuck it all in throw it in the shed wait a few weeks put it in a keg.. well the last one was ok but not great.
Anyhow I was in the shed watching my TPW(S) bubbling away nicely with the aquarium heaters I put in them that weekend.
That's when it all started I had my old mini fridge so I decided I'll use that along with a temperature controller and a aquarium heater (in the beer) and have a temp controlled brew.
Possibly a great start to making a lot better beer...
Then I realized none of the fermenters I had fit in the fridge :( so Off to Bunnings and $25 later a new 30L drum that fits :)
Got to work, installed the heater through the lid put in the air lock grommet then went on to sterilising every thing
I warmed up the kit can a little to pour easier, put as little hot water as possible to dissolve the Mangrove Jack's Brewblend #15 (that I was suggested to use instead of sugar) then filled to 23L of water
This is when my night started to turn to shit. I Had it all together hadn't pitched the yeast but couldn't find where I put my air lock after a good solid 15minuits Of stressing and getting angry I gave up on finding my airlock ripped out the heater and seal from the lid put the heater (sprayed with sanitiser) in the brew put some gladwrap for a lid and the seal to hold it on (with the heater flat cord coming out from under the seal) So I put the yeast in around 24c then chucked it in the fridge set the temp controller to 18c so its cooling as I type. I sanitised the living crap out of every thing paranoid about trying to make a good beer (this was my make it good or not do it again batch). So then I thought right where the F*** is this air lock and I started thinking crap I hope its not in the beer! turns out its not.... I found it in my cooling tank for my still! When I was done with my bucked of water/starsan I chucked it in my trough for cooling water not realising the airlock was still in the bucket. at this stage I was just happy it wasn't in the beer.
Like I said I sanitised every thing even the gladwrap for the lid even the can opener and the knife I used to open the yeast packet.
The only 2 down falls I can thing of when I pitched the yeast I nearly dropped the yeast packet in the beer the very corner of the packet just touched the top of the beer
Also I had the lid off the wort for about 10 maybe 15 mins looking for the airlock before pitching yeast :|
The Yeast I used was safale us 05 Dry ale yeast
I've never done a beer with anything other than the kit and a 1kg of sugar
I'm used to Sugar washes where I don't sanitise a thing and they always turn out good
Anyway Thanks for taking the time to read what do you all thing