...said the doctor...
Split my ESB wort into two fermenters:
12 L in a 23 L glass carboy with Safale S-04.
18 L in a 32 L PP plastic bucket with WLP002.
Let it ferment for 2 weeks or so.
Opened both to throw in vapor sterilized muslin bags filled with Fuggles pellets as dryhop (hops added after the sterilization of course) (dryhopped the primary).
Sanitized everything that touched the wort when I opened the fermenters. Took a sample from both.
I was expecting S-04 to dry out more, but got FG 1.012 for both (OG was 1.057).
Both samples tasted fine... WLP002 actually tasted a tad better.
Let the dryhop just a tad more than I was planning for, but only like 10 days total.
Yesterday I prepared the sugar solutions for both and stuff...
... and then I opened the PP plastic fermenter to transfer to the bottling bucket...
...and then I closed it again... and bottled only the carboy instead...
It's batch #19... Pitched two fresh vials into 18 liters wort, still underpitching at LITTLE bit but basically, it's the first time I didn't do a starter with liquid yeast... got too confy I guess...
At least I still have 12 liters bottled...
I plan on dumping everything in the toilet and even throw away the fermenter... Maybe this 2 years old PP plastic fermenter isn't that great...
Still... that kind of suck...
Split my ESB wort into two fermenters:
12 L in a 23 L glass carboy with Safale S-04.
18 L in a 32 L PP plastic bucket with WLP002.
Let it ferment for 2 weeks or so.
Opened both to throw in vapor sterilized muslin bags filled with Fuggles pellets as dryhop (hops added after the sterilization of course) (dryhopped the primary).
Sanitized everything that touched the wort when I opened the fermenters. Took a sample from both.
I was expecting S-04 to dry out more, but got FG 1.012 for both (OG was 1.057).
Both samples tasted fine... WLP002 actually tasted a tad better.
Let the dryhop just a tad more than I was planning for, but only like 10 days total.
Yesterday I prepared the sugar solutions for both and stuff...
... and then I opened the PP plastic fermenter to transfer to the bottling bucket...
...and then I closed it again... and bottled only the carboy instead...
It's batch #19... Pitched two fresh vials into 18 liters wort, still underpitching at LITTLE bit but basically, it's the first time I didn't do a starter with liquid yeast... got too confy I guess...
At least I still have 12 liters bottled...
I plan on dumping everything in the toilet and even throw away the fermenter... Maybe this 2 years old PP plastic fermenter isn't that great...
Still... that kind of suck...