Rob S
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I put down the following some time ago: -
Pils (Meu Aus) 47%
Torrified Rice 15%
Flaked Maize 15%
Cara Pils 5%
Sugar 18%
Amylo 300 in the mash
Mashed in at tap water temperature, slowly raised it to 52*C then added boiling water to raise to 67*C for 60 mins.
60 min boil with Saaz to 15 IBU (Additions as 60 and 15 mins)
Wyeast 2007 Pilsen Lager
I hit the OG of 1.046 spot on.
I smacked the pack and it took a good 24 hours to swell up at ambient temperature, I pitched at 18*C and set the STC1000 to 11*
24 hours later and there was nothing, no krausen or anything. I didn't rush, I didn't touch it, I didn't want to be impatient.
Then I realised that I'd forgotten to add the sugar to the boil.
I did a gravity reading and there was no movement from the OG.
I waited until 7 days and there was still nothing and the gravity was the same.
Shitted off that the Lager yeast was probably a bummer I bumped the temperature back up to 18*C for 72 hours and still nothing......
So I got a 750ml tallie of slurry containing US-05 and dumped it in (being as sterile as I could with Starsan) and left it at 18*C.
24 hours later it's charging like nothing else. Lovely krausen and looking like beer.
My question is......what's it going to be? Is there any way to salvage it and turn it into something drinkable.....or is it going to be one fucked up mess?
I presume my only option is to try to save it by dry hopping a fair bit into it and leave in there for a week or two.
Maybe I can boil some other hops for 10 mins or so, put the lid on, wrap up with gladwrap and put it in the freezer to coil, then add this to the fermenter as well?
Any suggestions for hops?
I'm shitted off at the lagers. This is the second one I did and I'm really preferring Pale Ale's over anything else so I might just stick to Ale's. Too much stuffing around with lagers.
Pils (Meu Aus) 47%
Torrified Rice 15%
Flaked Maize 15%
Cara Pils 5%
Sugar 18%
Amylo 300 in the mash
Mashed in at tap water temperature, slowly raised it to 52*C then added boiling water to raise to 67*C for 60 mins.
60 min boil with Saaz to 15 IBU (Additions as 60 and 15 mins)
Wyeast 2007 Pilsen Lager
I hit the OG of 1.046 spot on.
I smacked the pack and it took a good 24 hours to swell up at ambient temperature, I pitched at 18*C and set the STC1000 to 11*
24 hours later and there was nothing, no krausen or anything. I didn't rush, I didn't touch it, I didn't want to be impatient.
Then I realised that I'd forgotten to add the sugar to the boil.
I did a gravity reading and there was no movement from the OG.
I waited until 7 days and there was still nothing and the gravity was the same.
Shitted off that the Lager yeast was probably a bummer I bumped the temperature back up to 18*C for 72 hours and still nothing......
So I got a 750ml tallie of slurry containing US-05 and dumped it in (being as sterile as I could with Starsan) and left it at 18*C.
24 hours later it's charging like nothing else. Lovely krausen and looking like beer.
My question is......what's it going to be? Is there any way to salvage it and turn it into something drinkable.....or is it going to be one fucked up mess?
I presume my only option is to try to save it by dry hopping a fair bit into it and leave in there for a week or two.
Maybe I can boil some other hops for 10 mins or so, put the lid on, wrap up with gladwrap and put it in the freezer to coil, then add this to the fermenter as well?
Any suggestions for hops?
I'm shitted off at the lagers. This is the second one I did and I'm really preferring Pale Ale's over anything else so I might just stick to Ale's. Too much stuffing around with lagers.