Orange Hefeweizen (ala 'shocktop')

[wilted]

Yea this is the first time i've gotten a weird smell, everything looks ok. I'm guessing the super fast start might have something to do with it.
Now for the hard part ...... waiting

[montofk]

OK.. What's going on with my shocktop?!  ... just done this one, wasn't going to bother with a gravity reading but did one just before pitching, getting 1082!!! Double checked the recipe just to see if I'd misread something but I haven't... The only variation was 250g of carapils instead of 300g as I just didn't have enough.
Was thinking some glob of extra concentrated wort must have gone through to the trial jar and is skewing the reading? Something must have happened to put it that high.... Otherwise I'm going to be steaming drinking this one.... What does it finish out at? The wort was well mixed as I was topping up with cold water so I'm doubtful it's for that reason, but can't think what else it might be. Temp is fine by the way 21C.

[LordEoin]

If you followed the recipe it's either a 'glob of extra concentrated wort' or your hydrometer is wrong.
put your hydrometer in 20 water and it should read 1.000, even if it is off it is unlikely to be that much off.
The recipe should be somewhere around 1.044 OG and 1.010FG

[montofk]

It just has to be 'a glob' (Will be sending that in for entry in to next years dictionary ), couldn't be anything else, funny it's never happened before, I've never even read about it happening... and the wort was well mixed.. surprising but it must be that.....

The recipe should be somewhere around 1.044 OG and 1.010FG

Yep, that'd be more like what I was expecting. Will check the old hydro tomorrow just to rule it out/in.
Will also check the contents of the trial jar for any rogue globs 
looking forward to drinking it anyway.

[LordEoin]

Brew it fast, drink it young 

[IrishBeerSnob]

So I started this tonight, OG was 1.05.
Little darker in colour than i thought it would be to be honest

[LordEoin]

Yeah, it was entered into last yeat's competition as an orange witbier and one of the notes was that it was slightly dark for a wit.
It's the price you pay for the convenience of kit hacking.
Still scored 41, and I couldn't give a damn what colour it is

[IrishBeerSnob]

Very active airlock on this one, fermenting away there.
Will move it on sunday to a slightly cooler location

With regard to priming? was going to batch prime, how many grams per liter?

[IrishBeerSnob]

Ok, OG started at 1.05, currently last night @ 1.01 came down quickly

Should this be still left in the FV for the 2nd week - Will be two weeks on Sunday

[LordEoin]

it doesnt need any extra time in the FV. Once it's fermented out and not looking like muck you're good to bottle.
It's supposed to be a cloudy yeasty tasty delicious beer

[IrishBeerSnob]

excellent.
So i can move to bottling bucket and prime at 7g / litre?

[LordEoin]

go for it

[IrishBeerSnob]

Cool gonna check the gravity this evening - if its the same i'm gonna bottle this mofo.
Might have one or two ready for the weekend hopefully!

[LordEoin]

you force carbing? It'll take a couple of weeks to carb up.

[IrishBeerSnob]

Dang no
Dunno how i thought that