Noleafclover
Well-Known Member
So here is the back story real quick....
I brewed 10 gallons of an english pale ale and split it off to two carboys. I used a different yeast strain in each to see how they'd affect flavor. I've developed some lazy habits but almost always make a starter when using liquid yeast.
This time I didn't... With one strain of yeast I had a nice kreusen in a day. The other one took nearly 48 hours to show signs of kreusen.
I let em both go 21 days in the carboy. I racked the one with the slower moving yeast to a keg after letting it sit. It never had very vigorous fermentation but did get a somewhat normal looking kreusen.
So... because I've let myself become a lazy homebrewer I didn't even bother to check gravity before I went into a corny keg. I put it in the kegerator. I tried it a couple of days later, and to my surprise, I was drinking a cup of cold wort (which was quite good, btw...)
I took a gravity reading and lo and behold, 1.049 at about 45 degrees.
I ended up rehydrating a pack of us05 and pitching it last Saturday. I figured I would just use the "out" valve to blow off the CO2 occasionally and have since been sprayed in the face by the beer a few times.... The lid to this particular corny doesn't have one of those key ring pressure valve - it has some sort of automated thing that goes off at a certain pressure.
In any case, this isn't my normal practice but I thought it would be an interesting experiment. I should have picked one with a normal pressure relief valve though.
I brewed 10 gallons of an english pale ale and split it off to two carboys. I used a different yeast strain in each to see how they'd affect flavor. I've developed some lazy habits but almost always make a starter when using liquid yeast.
This time I didn't... With one strain of yeast I had a nice kreusen in a day. The other one took nearly 48 hours to show signs of kreusen.
I let em both go 21 days in the carboy. I racked the one with the slower moving yeast to a keg after letting it sit. It never had very vigorous fermentation but did get a somewhat normal looking kreusen.
So... because I've let myself become a lazy homebrewer I didn't even bother to check gravity before I went into a corny keg. I put it in the kegerator. I tried it a couple of days later, and to my surprise, I was drinking a cup of cold wort (which was quite good, btw...)
I took a gravity reading and lo and behold, 1.049 at about 45 degrees.
I ended up rehydrating a pack of us05 and pitching it last Saturday. I figured I would just use the "out" valve to blow off the CO2 occasionally and have since been sprayed in the face by the beer a few times.... The lid to this particular corny doesn't have one of those key ring pressure valve - it has some sort of automated thing that goes off at a certain pressure.
In any case, this isn't my normal practice but I thought it would be an interesting experiment. I should have picked one with a normal pressure relief valve though.