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- From: dheckman@novell.com (Diane Heckman)
- Subject: RAPID starting yeast, worried beginner needs help
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.020951.12709@novell.com>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:09:51 GMT
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- This is our second extract batch. For the first, we didn't
- follow Miller's advice and rack the beer off the trub, so
- I decided we should do it this time. Now I'm worried....
-
- Here's what we did:
- Yeast starter-
- 1/14 pitch dregs from 2 bottles of Hoegaarden Grand Cru
- into 2 cups sterilized wort made from DME.
- Enjoy Grand Cru.
- airlock it and set it atop the refrigerator
- 1/18 notice 1/4 inch of foam on the yeast starter. Rejoice.
- 1/22 feed yeast starter another 8 oz of sterile wort
- 1/23 sampled the starter - no off odors, smelled like
- Grand Cru, tasted sweet. Took it to the brewstore
- guy who said that it seemed OK.
- 1/24 brewed beer
-
- Recipe:
- 2 cans BrewFerm Grand Cru extract (6.6 lbs)
- 3.3 gallons water
- .5 oz Hallertau hops
-
- Boil 45 minutes. Add hops, let sit for 20 minutes.
- Rack to plastic "primary". Cool for 2 hours in an
- icewater filled bathtub to 55 F. OSG 77 !! Pitch with
- yeast starter at 1pm Sunday. Rack to glass carboy.
- Lots of aertion with 5 minutes of vigorous stirring
- after pitching, and "fanning out" the beer when racking.
- Leave the filled carboy (with a filled, vodka filled airlock)
- on a chair in the dining room - about 68 F. (We have a
- Asmall apartment and no way to get a cooler temperature)
-
- Being a beginner, I decide to follow Miller's advice
- and let the trub settle out overnight. Mistake.
-
- This morning at 8am, we have rapid fermentation,
- 50 bubbles per minute. I read the Miller book and he says
- not to rack during fermentation. So much for getting
- the wort off the trub. :-(
-
- By noon, there was a 4 inch layer of foam with sediment
- on top (looks like a poorly maintained jacuzzi), VERY visible
- fermentation (swirling wort) and 70 bubbles per minute.
-
-
- Should I worry? Will the beer be icky because we didn't
- get it off the trub? Will that layer of foam grow and
- overflow out 6 gallon glass carboy? Is it OK/safe to
- allow a primary fermentation to go on in a glass carboy?
- I have images of large shards in the living room.
-
-
- Thanks in advance for the reassurance / advice-
- Diane
-
- PS. If anyone knows where to buy Hoegaarden Grand Cru in
- the US, PLEASE let me know.
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