Superdiscobreakin
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Hi all, happy new year.
Over the Christmas break armed with what I'd learn't from AG#1 I fired up the kit and brewed again.
This time the Adnams Explorer clone from GW.
The brew day went pretty well, i was aiming for 19L and finished with 18L basically because I didn't take into account the dead space in the boiler.
I hit my OG so I thought i was on to a winner. I pitched the yeast and then we went away for a few days, and this is where the problems start.
I left the fermenting brew in the spare room as is the warmest in the house, when we're at home it is usually circa 20C, however, standard practice when away is to minimise the heating to protect pipes from freezing. On return the temp of the room was down at 16C. I checked the gravity and it was only at 1020 when i was meant to be hitting 1009!
The brew is fermented in a platic bucket with lid with a hole drilled in the top for the airlock via a rubber grommet. I noticed the grommet had split allowing air access to the brew. I corrected this, roused the yeast and hoped i'd got away with it and for no further problems.
The brew was destined for the keg this time so after getting a consistent (disappointing) reading of 1017 follwoing rousing the yeast, last night i siphoned it off to the keg. Over Christmas my folks stayed with us with their dog, some how despite my efforts to keep the area clean and sanitised I found a dog hair in the fermenter.
My question is therefore, based on the above, should i just ditch the brew, forget about it and move on to the next? or in peoples wider experience is it salvagable?
Cheers
Over the Christmas break armed with what I'd learn't from AG#1 I fired up the kit and brewed again.
This time the Adnams Explorer clone from GW.
The brew day went pretty well, i was aiming for 19L and finished with 18L basically because I didn't take into account the dead space in the boiler.
I hit my OG so I thought i was on to a winner. I pitched the yeast and then we went away for a few days, and this is where the problems start.
I left the fermenting brew in the spare room as is the warmest in the house, when we're at home it is usually circa 20C, however, standard practice when away is to minimise the heating to protect pipes from freezing. On return the temp of the room was down at 16C. I checked the gravity and it was only at 1020 when i was meant to be hitting 1009!
The brew is fermented in a platic bucket with lid with a hole drilled in the top for the airlock via a rubber grommet. I noticed the grommet had split allowing air access to the brew. I corrected this, roused the yeast and hoped i'd got away with it and for no further problems.
The brew was destined for the keg this time so after getting a consistent (disappointing) reading of 1017 follwoing rousing the yeast, last night i siphoned it off to the keg. Over Christmas my folks stayed with us with their dog, some how despite my efforts to keep the area clean and sanitised I found a dog hair in the fermenter.
My question is therefore, based on the above, should i just ditch the brew, forget about it and move on to the next? or in peoples wider experience is it salvagable?
Cheers