Hello All,
New to the forum here but have gotten a ton of great info from you guys over the past few months for my first two extract brews. Thank you.
I just brewed my third extract batch last night - a northern brewer "ace of spades" black ipa. This is the second time that i have used the safale us05 yeast... first time was with a chinook ipa and i did not rehydrate. This time i did.
I pitched the yeast into the wort at around 74 F, after rehydrating according to manufacturer instructions. Finished up around midnight last night and had a look at the carboy this morning only to find that all of the yeast was at the bottom of the carboy. is this normal? usually i see the kraussen form on top of the wort after a couple of days and then drop out to the bottom. the only thing i am seeing right now is the yeast cake at the bottom of the carboy - AFTER 7 HOURS.....???
also, this "black ipa" seemed to be more brown than black. and my OG reading was 1.044 compared to 1.068 according to the kit. faulty hydrometer maybe (its the cheap NB hydrometer)??? cant think of anything i screwed up last night.
New to the forum here but have gotten a ton of great info from you guys over the past few months for my first two extract brews. Thank you.
I just brewed my third extract batch last night - a northern brewer "ace of spades" black ipa. This is the second time that i have used the safale us05 yeast... first time was with a chinook ipa and i did not rehydrate. This time i did.
I pitched the yeast into the wort at around 74 F, after rehydrating according to manufacturer instructions. Finished up around midnight last night and had a look at the carboy this morning only to find that all of the yeast was at the bottom of the carboy. is this normal? usually i see the kraussen form on top of the wort after a couple of days and then drop out to the bottom. the only thing i am seeing right now is the yeast cake at the bottom of the carboy - AFTER 7 HOURS.....???
also, this "black ipa" seemed to be more brown than black. and my OG reading was 1.044 compared to 1.068 according to the kit. faulty hydrometer maybe (its the cheap NB hydrometer)??? cant think of anything i screwed up last night.