kenstel
Well-Known Member
Today I did my first AG kit.
The instructions were non-existent, just a list of times, temperatures etc. That led to me starting a thread asking for info about using the Irish Moss that was supplied.
Unfortunately, the volume in the pot was so low, I couldn't siphon and had to pour everything as it was into the fermenter.
The kit was supposed to make 4.5L but after the 90 minute boil as gently as I could (I had to check the temperature several times to check it was actually 100 degrees because there was so little movement on the surface) what I had eventually tipped into the fermenter was about 2 litres. The gravity was easy high. Deciding that 2 litres wasn't worth the effort, I added boiled water to 4.5L and the gravity much closer to the specified. Didn't like doing but the boil of was excessive.
However 2 hours after pitching the yeast (which didn't dissolve very easily) there seems to be a LOT of sediment.
You can see there's about 2 litres of sediment. Is that normal? How on earth am I going to get a reasonable amount of beer or off it?
The instructions were non-existent, just a list of times, temperatures etc. That led to me starting a thread asking for info about using the Irish Moss that was supplied.
Unfortunately, the volume in the pot was so low, I couldn't siphon and had to pour everything as it was into the fermenter.
The kit was supposed to make 4.5L but after the 90 minute boil as gently as I could (I had to check the temperature several times to check it was actually 100 degrees because there was so little movement on the surface) what I had eventually tipped into the fermenter was about 2 litres. The gravity was easy high. Deciding that 2 litres wasn't worth the effort, I added boiled water to 4.5L and the gravity much closer to the specified. Didn't like doing but the boil of was excessive.
However 2 hours after pitching the yeast (which didn't dissolve very easily) there seems to be a LOT of sediment.
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You can see there's about 2 litres of sediment. Is that normal? How on earth am I going to get a reasonable amount of beer or off it?