hopefully you folks don't mind me sharing my process and can point out what i may have done wrong.
First brew for a few months, and really short of time at the moment, so gutted its been wasted.
NC wort, 3 days old. went into the cube at well over 85C, was sealed cube with no air whatsoever, no signs of swelling cube, and wort tasted good, so think i'm ok there. SG 1048
NC cube was in the ferm fridge at 18C prior to going into FV.
FV = i store it with a cup of starsan inside it, and give it shake every few weeks.
shook the FV, let it sit sealed for a few mins, then poured out the starsan, just some foam left inside, poured wort into that, poured into FV whilst standing up to give it a fair splash around, and gave it a thrash with a sanitised paddle for 3 mins or so. big foam on top by the time i'd finished.
Ran out of time so rather than hydrating the yeast, US05, just bunged it in, and it sat on the foamy head of the wort, slowly sort of sinking in.
Glad wrapped and into the fridge at 18C.
too busy, so didn't check it for 5 days, no krausen, just a bit of scum, the glad wrap hadn't swelled, and the inside of the fridge didn't have that all is good with the world smell. SG=1044, bugger.
Wasn't until day 7 that i could get more yeast.
tried to ensure to get different batch of yeast dipstick at the brew shop insisted that seeing as i couldn't tell him the airlock was bubbling he lost all interest in helping me out...
hydrated the yeast this time, bunged it in, set thetemp mate to 19C, but no SG reading at this time though.
24 hours later SG=1015, but yucky smell. No swelling of the glad wrap still.
Tastes like last night's beer but maybe 3 days old that's been sat in the sun all day, maybe with a couple of ciggy ends put into it for good measure.
So down the drain it goes.s
so do I chalk it up to sh!t happens, or should i be more careful with any particular bit?
First brew for a few months, and really short of time at the moment, so gutted its been wasted.
NC wort, 3 days old. went into the cube at well over 85C, was sealed cube with no air whatsoever, no signs of swelling cube, and wort tasted good, so think i'm ok there. SG 1048
NC cube was in the ferm fridge at 18C prior to going into FV.
FV = i store it with a cup of starsan inside it, and give it shake every few weeks.
shook the FV, let it sit sealed for a few mins, then poured out the starsan, just some foam left inside, poured wort into that, poured into FV whilst standing up to give it a fair splash around, and gave it a thrash with a sanitised paddle for 3 mins or so. big foam on top by the time i'd finished.
Ran out of time so rather than hydrating the yeast, US05, just bunged it in, and it sat on the foamy head of the wort, slowly sort of sinking in.
Glad wrapped and into the fridge at 18C.
too busy, so didn't check it for 5 days, no krausen, just a bit of scum, the glad wrap hadn't swelled, and the inside of the fridge didn't have that all is good with the world smell. SG=1044, bugger.
Wasn't until day 7 that i could get more yeast.
tried to ensure to get different batch of yeast dipstick at the brew shop insisted that seeing as i couldn't tell him the airlock was bubbling he lost all interest in helping me out...
hydrated the yeast this time, bunged it in, set thetemp mate to 19C, but no SG reading at this time though.
24 hours later SG=1015, but yucky smell. No swelling of the glad wrap still.
Tastes like last night's beer but maybe 3 days old that's been sat in the sun all day, maybe with a couple of ciggy ends put into it for good measure.
So down the drain it goes.s
so do I chalk it up to sh!t happens, or should i be more careful with any particular bit?
