The Great Brewing Adventure, Hour 21

Well, the beer is looking ok… but I’m worried I killed the yeast when I put it into the fermentor. Yeast has needs, apparently, and I am just not the person to supply those.

Basically, after my happier post last night, I proceeded to take the advice of two of the three instruction books I had for the beer brewing and did not chill the wort before pouring it into the fermentor (plastic bucket)  filled with cold water. Some poeple suggest chiling the wort to 70 degrees before mixing with the rest of the water, but I didn’t want to wait, thinking the cold water would insta-cool the wort.

Turns out, it doesn’t.

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