Power Outage... Delayed wort chilling

[vtchuck]

Rainy day... so I bagged the honey dew list and started a batch of homebrew.

About 30 minutes into the 90 minute boil, there's a little thunder and the power goes out. I'm OK because I'm boiling with propane in the garage.

At the end of the boil, still no lights. I have a well. No power = no water to cool the wort.... so I decide RDWHAHB. I put a cover on the keggle and pour myself a beer, take a little nap and ninety minutes later Ready Kilowatt restores my power.

I cool as usual with my immersion cooler and its into the primary. Pitched Nottingham and its bubbling away within 3 hours.

What kind of issues might I expect due to the extended cooling time?

TIA

 

[Go Gators]

I don't have as many brews under my belt as you do, or others, but I would not worry too much about the delay in cooling. Yes that COULD pose a risk of nasties growing in the wort, but if you covered it and it was only about two hours after the boil then I think you did everything right considering. Like you said RDWHAHB

 

[EdWort]

Depending on your recipe, you could get some DMS. You will know by the cream corn aroma & flavor.

 

[jcarson83]

I would have just brought it back to a boil after the power came back on to kill anything that might have gotten in and then chilled.

 

[niquejim]

Rainy day... so I bagged the honey dew list and started a batch of homebrew.

About 30 minutes into the 90 minute boil, there's a little thunder and the power goes out. I'm OK because I'm boiling with propane in the garage.

At the end of the boil, still no lights. I have a well. No power = no water to cool the wort.... so I decide RDWHAHB. I put a cover on the keggle and pour myself a beer, take a little nap and ninety minutes later Ready Kilowatt restores my power.

I cool as usual with my immersion cooler and its into the primary. Pitched Nottingham and its bubbling away within 3 hours.

What kind of issues might I expect due to the extended cooling time?

TIA

What were you making. An APA with steeped hops would have been outstanding(see my Fat Owl recipe)

 

[vtchuck]

What were you making. An APA with steeped hops would have been outstanding(see my Fat Owl recipe)

Wish I'd thought of leaving the hops in to steep, but I really expected the power to come back on shortly

I don't have the exact recipe with me, but it was an experiment to make a lighter color, dry "summer" IPA. And I was all out of pale ale malt. So it was something like this:

8 # pilsner malt
.5 # Vienna
1.5 # Munich
1# corn sugar
.75 Galena @ 60
.75 EKG @ 30
. 50 Cascade @ 15
.50 Cascade @ 1

90 minute boil, batch sparge, Nottingham yeast

 

[vtchuck]

Depending on your recipe, you could get some DMS. You will know by the cream corn aroma & flavor.

I was afraid of that, because I used pilsner malt..... but I did do a 90 minute boil, so maybe that will help minimize the DMS. I'll know in a few days.

Thanks