Never before have I seen a yeast take off so fast! I brewed an Irish Red ale last night, aerated the wort as I normally would by splashing it into the bucket from the kettle, from a height. I had three 500ml jars with unwashed trub and s-04 yeast from my last batch, a Vanilla Brown ale. I'd harvested that when racking to secondary onto the vanilla beans.
The jars were warmed to room temp by the time I pitched, the wort was around 78F (higher than I'd normally pitched but whatever).
After pitching I went to wash my kettle and stuff, maybe 45 minutes later I check and I have a skim of krausen...what the...nah, must be trub floating up. An hour later I had an inch of foamy white krausen, unmistakable. Holy hell!
For funsies here's the recipe I built up:
5lbs Gambrinus English Special Blend Malt (basically Marris Otter)
5lbs Gambrinus Pilsner Malt
.5lbs Crystal 20
.5lbs Gambrinus Aromatic Malt
.25lbs Roasted Barley
.75oz Chinook hops at 40min
40 minute mash, got 84%. 40 minute boil, 24ibu's or so, 82% efficiency all said and done, 5.8 gallons or so of wort in the fermenter.
This yeast is just so fun, the vanilla ale I did last with it about a month ago was fully finished from 1.065 to 1.012 in 2 days. Crazzzeeee!
The jars were warmed to room temp by the time I pitched, the wort was around 78F (higher than I'd normally pitched but whatever).
After pitching I went to wash my kettle and stuff, maybe 45 minutes later I check and I have a skim of krausen...what the...nah, must be trub floating up. An hour later I had an inch of foamy white krausen, unmistakable. Holy hell!
For funsies here's the recipe I built up:
5lbs Gambrinus English Special Blend Malt (basically Marris Otter)
5lbs Gambrinus Pilsner Malt
.5lbs Crystal 20
.5lbs Gambrinus Aromatic Malt
.25lbs Roasted Barley
.75oz Chinook hops at 40min
40 minute mash, got 84%. 40 minute boil, 24ibu's or so, 82% efficiency all said and done, 5.8 gallons or so of wort in the fermenter.
This yeast is just so fun, the vanilla ale I did last with it about a month ago was fully finished from 1.065 to 1.012 in 2 days. Crazzzeeee!