First ever brew completed

Bevis said:
relax mate the yeast is doing its work. It has just hit the next stage in the yeast's life cycle this is normal. Here you will find this article helpful.
http://www.wyeastlab.com/fermentation
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That is a good article to simply explain how yeasties work only dabbling at some of the different things you can do to change yeast influence in beer. Keep things simple for the first few batches to get your process down.
By the way if you really want to dive into water right away usually after "mash in" is the time to check and if necessary adjust PH. Different malts have different influence on PH.
 
CRUNK said:
I force oxygenated the wort for 1 minute, I'm sure it will recover, I would love to drink it now, I smells awesome.
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You oxygenated after fermentation? My prediction is flavor of wet cardboard. You always want to keep oxygen out of the beer after fermentation starts to avoid staling.
 
When the yeast stalled I warmed it up a little bit at a time slowly over about 12 hour. And then I squirreled it to resuspend the east in the work without oxygenating it
 
Still super cloudy 3 days latter, I'll give it another day, if there isn't any activity, I'll pitch again, and go from there.
 
Problem solved, operator error. True was settled above my sample port. Thus looking like coffee with creamer. I even cold crashed a sample everything dropped out beautifully and it tastes exactly as I hoped.

No more worries, lesson learned.
 
CRUNK said:
Problem solved, operator error. True was settled above my sample port. Thus looking like coffee with creamer. I even cold crashed a sample everything dropped out beautifully and it tastes exactly as I hoped.

No more worries, lesson learned.
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Where did you put the sample port on the fermenter vessel?
 
As instructed by fast fermentor 3 inches below the 1 liter line
 
Bottled yesterday, fg 1.015, it didn't go any lower for 4 days. Smells and tastes very good.
 
CRUNK said:
Newbie here, brewed my first time ever yesterday, been doing 6 months of research before taking on this endeavor spent a small fortune on my investment of my brewery, went strait into all grain, American Amber Ale og was 1.053, smooth brew day, no hiccups what so ever. I'm hooked, I'll post my fg in approx 2 weeks before I bottle it.
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To early to tell if your hooked. Check back in 6 months if you lost your job your wife left you and you need to panhandle to buy your grains then you will know your hooked. Welcome to the support group
 
Brew Cat said:
To early to tell if your hooked. Check back in 6 months if you lost your job your wife left you and you need to panhandle to buy your grains then you will know your hooked. Welcome to the support group
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that sounds like a good country song
 
It sure does. put something about the tractor dieing and the dog running away and you will have the next big country hit
 
My horse ate my malt , kicked my dog and my truck broke down .....out here on the range

When I first started I would check my FV every 20 minutes , thought about putting a baby moniter next to my airlock to help me sleep but now I can ignore it for days at a time !
 
Bevis said:
It sure does. put something about the tractor dieing and the dog running away and you will have the next big country hit
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"I was drunk, the day my momma, got out of prison. And I went to pick her up, in the raiiiiiinnnn...." You know the rest.
 
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