Another silly newbie post...
About 5 weeks ago I brewed a porter with some Safale K-097 yeast (related post here has more info on brewing parameters)
I made 2.5G of wort but dumbly only had two 2G carboys as FVs. The remaining 0.5G I put into a sanitized swivel-top glass bottle my wife uses to make kombucha. I pitched a volume-adjusted weight of yeast even though I had slightly under the manufacturer's recommended weight in yeast for the amount of volume.
To prevent the bottle from exploding I didn't swivel the top closed, but just put the cap on the bottle and left it there "unswivelled" (or whatever the technical term is, i don't know). TBH I didn't think of swivelling shut after the initial vigorous fermentation phase.
At the recs of the other posters on the linked thread above, I let the fermentation run a little longer than usual.
Now, I am planning on taking an SG measurement from all 3 FVs this weekend, and bottle if I hit the SG for whichever FV meets the SG.
My Q is realy about whether I should just not even bother with the 3rd FV that I didn't swivel shut. I don't see much carbonation moving around when i gently lift up the bottle making sure to not disturb the trub. Waste of time?
thanks all
About 5 weeks ago I brewed a porter with some Safale K-097 yeast (related post here has more info on brewing parameters)
I made 2.5G of wort but dumbly only had two 2G carboys as FVs. The remaining 0.5G I put into a sanitized swivel-top glass bottle my wife uses to make kombucha. I pitched a volume-adjusted weight of yeast even though I had slightly under the manufacturer's recommended weight in yeast for the amount of volume.
To prevent the bottle from exploding I didn't swivel the top closed, but just put the cap on the bottle and left it there "unswivelled" (or whatever the technical term is, i don't know). TBH I didn't think of swivelling shut after the initial vigorous fermentation phase.
At the recs of the other posters on the linked thread above, I let the fermentation run a little longer than usual.
Now, I am planning on taking an SG measurement from all 3 FVs this weekend, and bottle if I hit the SG for whichever FV meets the SG.
My Q is realy about whether I should just not even bother with the 3rd FV that I didn't swivel shut. I don't see much carbonation moving around when i gently lift up the bottle making sure to not disturb the trub. Waste of time?
thanks all