Well i just brewed a Vienna lager this past Sunday ( my first decoction ever and it went great!!). It was a 5.5 gallon batch with a O.G. of 1.049. So i pitched i starter of around 400 billion cells. I made a step starter and for the last setup i added about 1.4 liters of my first runnings which i water down and boiled to get a s.g. of .042. I pitched my yeast around 59f since that was as cold as my ground water can go. Then i stuck my fermenter in a ice bath in my ice chest where i ferment at. The starting temp was around 45 degrees and i had fermention begin slowly around 8 hours from pitching but after going for two days at 48-50 degrees i started to get blow off in my airlock. Is the normal for this yeast? Here is a pic of what it looked like before i cleaned it off.
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Oh and sorry if i ramble on but i just wanted to write in all the factors!!
Oh and sorry if i ramble on but i just wanted to write in all the factors!!