Hello all
I'm brewing a porter using a recipe I got at my local homebrewing store from extract - mainly BSG Bavarian wheat + typical dark malts like Carabrown and black malts etc. 2.5G is the volume I am shooting for. I ended up using a small packet of leftover Safale K-097 that had been sitting in my fridge tightly wrapped in its packging with a rubber band for 10 months. I was not able to get to my brewshop (8 month old daughter at home) and just wanted to get this done!
Everything went fine until I realized it was getting late and forgot to aerate the wort right after pitching the yeast (which I rehydrated ~1 hour prior to pitching with 10 cc of sterile water, directly into 2 glass carboys). No breaks in sanitation protocol happened, really.
The other thing is that I pitched 0.10 oz of The usual K097 ratio is around 0.15 oz --> 2.5G but I tried my luck nonetheless. Also added 1 oz of Willamette hops.
That was on Sunday (3/26) night. Needless to say, the fermentation didn't pick up as it usually does. There was almost no carbonation for the first ~24 hours. It's now 48 hours later and there are very fine bubbles now, with some froth at the top of the beer. But it's not the loud vigorous bubbling you usually hear in the first few days.
Something seems to be working though, because there is carbonation happening.
Do you guys recommend I just buy some fresh K097 and pitch some more? Or just wait for the next 48 hours?
Thanks
I'm brewing a porter using a recipe I got at my local homebrewing store from extract - mainly BSG Bavarian wheat + typical dark malts like Carabrown and black malts etc. 2.5G is the volume I am shooting for. I ended up using a small packet of leftover Safale K-097 that had been sitting in my fridge tightly wrapped in its packging with a rubber band for 10 months. I was not able to get to my brewshop (8 month old daughter at home) and just wanted to get this done!
Everything went fine until I realized it was getting late and forgot to aerate the wort right after pitching the yeast (which I rehydrated ~1 hour prior to pitching with 10 cc of sterile water, directly into 2 glass carboys). No breaks in sanitation protocol happened, really.
The other thing is that I pitched 0.10 oz of The usual K097 ratio is around 0.15 oz --> 2.5G but I tried my luck nonetheless. Also added 1 oz of Willamette hops.
That was on Sunday (3/26) night. Needless to say, the fermentation didn't pick up as it usually does. There was almost no carbonation for the first ~24 hours. It's now 48 hours later and there are very fine bubbles now, with some froth at the top of the beer. But it's not the loud vigorous bubbling you usually hear in the first few days.
Something seems to be working though, because there is carbonation happening.
Do you guys recommend I just buy some fresh K097 and pitch some more? Or just wait for the next 48 hours?
Thanks