Three days later and the brew is now at 4.9°P, so it's still doing it's thing. I'm going to be out of town from next week so I've got to bottle soon. @Birrofilo mentioned the possibility of a bottle bomb, but I'll be bottling into 750ml Belgian bottles equipped with bail-top's (a la Grolsch) so...
Took a gravity reading just now and it's gone from 6.1°P to 5.1°P. That seems somewhat significant given that the gravity read 6.1 on the third day after yeast pitching, and 6.1 on the 7th day after yeast pitching. As you say, I'll check again in a couple days and see what it's doing.
"Hop creep", that's a new term. Well it's not vigorous per se, it's just more vigorous than it's been since the initial attenuative phase. That is, the air lock is pushing through a bubble every 6-7 seconds now, but had only been doing so every ~20 seconds between attenuative phase and when I...
@VikeMan Right on for the research paper. @hout17 thanks for the astute question but no, I'm at sea level.
And indeed, thanks a lot to all for the helpful replies. @doug293cz correctly pointed out my egregious oversight, and while I briefly thought to attempt salvaging the beer with a...
Hi there, relatively new brewer but experienced cook and fermentation enthusiast. I'm doing BIAB and I've got a 35L Klarstein kettle with a built in thermometer, which seems to have kicked the bucket much sooner than it should have. This is something I noticed in my last brew when the...