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major screwup this morn...

Post by Stusbrews » Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:36 am

Im ashamed to admit it, but wtf, lesson learned....
7 am and hungover is NOT the time to start a boil....
split my batch this morn for 2 seperate boils....and forgot to adjust the hops accordingly...so my first boil went off just fine...with twice the hops intended and didnt realize till I was weighing out hops for the 2nd batch.
Wouldnt be so bad if it wasnt for the 60 min addition. So now boiling up the 2nd half with no hops, and will add to the first. Guess Ill just dry hop if my utilization was too low....bummer. on the bright side tho, Ill have 5 gal of this one instead of 2.5!

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Re: major screwup this morn...

Post by mr x » Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:44 am

You won't get any IBU's out of dry hopping remember. I'm sure it'll be fine.
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Post by RubberToe » Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:49 am

Yeah your utilization will be lower for the first half but I'm sure it will be fine.
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Post by Stusbrews » Sun Mar 03, 2013 12:27 pm

Im glad I did the simcoe first! Amarillo is too scarce to be redoing a batch...
Kickin myself tho...the whole point was to do them all the same...but Ill get the idea from tbis one.

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Post by sleepyjamie » Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:33 pm

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Re: major screwup this morn...

Post by Jayme » Tue Mar 05, 2013 9:56 am

Man I read major screw up and was expecting something epic... I can't count on one hand the number of times I've fucked up adding or not adding hops at the right time! Particularly first wort hops. I almost always forget to add them. Anyhow, I'm sure your batch will turn out just fine! I would call it a minor oversight.
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Re: major screwup this morn...

Post by Stusbrews » Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:17 pm

Yeah, was just hungover and panicking again....now boiling up the amarillo. So it all worked out for the best. :D. Full batch of each!

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