Dunkelweizen Racking

Since our dunkelweizen brewing buddies were here for the El Jefe tasting, we decided to rack the dunkel to the secondary fermenter. When we took the lid off the primary fermenter, there was a slightly funky smell. The hope is the yeast will take care of the funk. We made a two gallon batch and since they don't make 2 gallon carboys, we racked it into two one gallon carboys. Racking should have been an easy process, but I didn't know my own strength. After the beer was put into the carboys, I was putting the airlock in one of the stoppers and I pushed too far. The stopper ended up in the neck of the carboy. Then, in the process of trying to rescue the stopper, the glass on the carboy broke. So, we decided to call it a loss. Lessons were learned. At least we had made two gallons and one gallon is still going strong. The hydrometer reading was 1.017 so the current ABV is 4.7% before going into the secondary. Hopefully the gravity will still drop a few points by the end of secondary fermentation.

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