Conan
Well-Known Member
Haha. So this beer fermenting now, a Cascadian IPA, has been going for exactly 26 hours. I woke up this morning with some krausen and knew it would fill the airlock by the time I got home this evening. Sure did....filled right up. I'm using a 6 gal. carboy with 5.25 gallons of wort and this ain't my first true need for a blowoff tube, but it's certainly the coolest. I put a small (3/8") blowoff in when I got home and just checked it 10 minutes ago. It wasn't flowing anything, so I gently pulled the stopper out- filled with hop leafs. Oh, and it exploded. Definitely the first for that: covered the walls, kegerator, and myself. Cleaned and replaced the stopper/ tube, let it sit not 5 minutes and had the same thing happen again. My point here is this- does US-05 do this every time? I fermented a session RyePA with it on my last batch and that took off like a banshee as well. That was 1.046 OG down to 1.008 in 6 days. This beer is 1.062, fermenting in both cases is right around 69-71*F. If nothing else, this yeast is exciting! Kyle