gregoreckbrews
Active Member
I'm fermenting my first lager. After only 4 days in the primary, I noticed that the airlock activity had become very slow. My research on when to perform a diacetyl rest led me to believe it would take somewhere around 10-14 days to finish 75% of fermentation. To be safe, I took a gravity reading, and I am very close to 1.02. Starting gravity was about 1.052, so this should be very close to 75% complete. So I will begin the diacetyl rest now.
A few questions:
1) Is it odd to reach 1.02 in only 4 days?
2) After performing the 2 or 3 day diacetyl rest at warmer temperature, should I immediately rack to secondary? That would put me at the 1 week primary fermentation mark. Or would it be better to just leave it in primary another week at the warmer temperature so that it has 2 weeks to sit in all the yeast?
Some info on the beer:
Style: Oktoberfest
Starting Gravity: 1.052
Yeast: WLP 830 (German Lager)
Fermentation temperature: Temp controller set to 52F. I measured the temperature of the sample, and the beer was 55F.
Yeast Starter: About 3 liters
Thanks!
A few questions:
1) Is it odd to reach 1.02 in only 4 days?
2) After performing the 2 or 3 day diacetyl rest at warmer temperature, should I immediately rack to secondary? That would put me at the 1 week primary fermentation mark. Or would it be better to just leave it in primary another week at the warmer temperature so that it has 2 weeks to sit in all the yeast?
Some info on the beer:
Style: Oktoberfest
Starting Gravity: 1.052
Yeast: WLP 830 (German Lager)
Fermentation temperature: Temp controller set to 52F. I measured the temperature of the sample, and the beer was 55F.
Yeast Starter: About 3 liters
Thanks!