I brewed the Pliny extract kit w/ WLP001 (30 hour starter) from Northern Brewer last Saturday (7 days ago). With other double IPAs I brewed I had a large amount of blowoff, so I took some extra plastic tubing and made a blow off tube w/ a 1 gallon water bottle half filled with star san.
OG was 1.08, I got a little of the sludge from the boil pot in the primary so the actual OG may have been slightly lower.
It took 48-72 hours for fermentation to start and the fermentation was pretty weak, krausen was only an inch or so above the surface level. I never saw any bubbling in the star san.
Krausen lasted 4 days. I haven't taken another gravity reading yet, but I can't imagine in 4 days with that weak of krausen that all the sugar has been converted.
Everything I've read about Pliny clones says that fermentation is usually really active (blow off tube necessary).
I followed the instructions exactly, when I pitched the yeast the wart was 75 degrees. The only thing I can think of that was off was that the yeast was luke warm when I received it (it had been shipped without a cold pack). But since I had bubbling in the starter and krausen in the primary, I would think that the yeast was still good.
Would I see any benefit from getting another vile of WLP001, doing another starter (24 hours) and pitching it?
OG was 1.08, I got a little of the sludge from the boil pot in the primary so the actual OG may have been slightly lower.
It took 48-72 hours for fermentation to start and the fermentation was pretty weak, krausen was only an inch or so above the surface level. I never saw any bubbling in the star san.
Krausen lasted 4 days. I haven't taken another gravity reading yet, but I can't imagine in 4 days with that weak of krausen that all the sugar has been converted.
Everything I've read about Pliny clones says that fermentation is usually really active (blow off tube necessary).
I followed the instructions exactly, when I pitched the yeast the wart was 75 degrees. The only thing I can think of that was off was that the yeast was luke warm when I received it (it had been shipped without a cold pack). But since I had bubbling in the starter and krausen in the primary, I would think that the yeast was still good.
Would I see any benefit from getting another vile of WLP001, doing another starter (24 hours) and pitching it?
