My cherry has been popped!
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stevezx7r
Cheers for that JP, yeah, I remember doing my first can kit. I was upstairs, downstairs, reading instructions again and again, washing and cleaning. If I was going to get OCD it would have been then. 
Anyway, yeast has been pitched and OG now recorded as 1042 which is strange as i'm sure it was higher last night. Oh well, if it gets down to 1010 it should be around the 4+ %. A nice session beer.
Anyway, yeast has been pitched and OG now recorded as 1042 which is strange as i'm sure it was higher last night. Oh well, if it gets down to 1010 it should be around the 4+ %. A nice session beer.
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Dan
Glad to hear youve got the first notch on your brew bin 
If you monitor the temperature of the wort after the boil has finished, it will fall sharply from 100 - 90 infact you can get it down to less than 50C pretty quickly if you leave the thing out side in conductive vessel (metal pan with lid on for sanitation) as you get close to ambient temperature it takes much longer to drop a few degrees. This is the ideal time to use the ice.
If you monitor the temperature of the wort after the boil has finished, it will fall sharply from 100 - 90 infact you can get it down to less than 50C pretty quickly if you leave the thing out side in conductive vessel (metal pan with lid on for sanitation) as you get close to ambient temperature it takes much longer to drop a few degrees. This is the ideal time to use the ice.
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stevezx7r
The ice wasn't used to chill the wort as such, more of a cheap way of copying an imersion chiller. I didn't expect it to drop it to pitching temp. I did put it outside too on top of a tall bar stool but as the weather was getting windy I put it on the floor. The last thing I wanted was to hear a loud bang as 5 gallons of beer went spilling. 
Anyway, it's fermenting away nicely now, good krausen on it too.
Anyway, it's fermenting away nicely now, good krausen on it too.