hello all,
I just brewed my first batch of beer this past saturday and i have some concerns about the progress of the fermentation.
Primarily i am worried that my primary phase ended too soon and that the attenuation is incomplete. I put the wort into the carboy on saturday afternoon. Today (wednesay) the bubbling has slowed quite a bit and the foam on top was receding.
The lag time was short, bubbling began within 12 hours of pitching the yeast, also i did as much aeration as possible with "manual" techniques.
At the peak of fermentation the foam was about 1.5 inches thick and the bubbling was constant but not very vigorous.
Lastly what has me most concerned now is my choice of yeast. I used 1968 london esb, which apparently is highly flocculent. Is it possible/likely that the yeast has settled out before attenuation is complete, and can i shake up the carboy to get it going again or will this be bad for the beer in some way (shaking the carboy)?
[temps were between 62-65 the whole time]
thanks, sorry for the long post
I just brewed my first batch of beer this past saturday and i have some concerns about the progress of the fermentation.
Primarily i am worried that my primary phase ended too soon and that the attenuation is incomplete. I put the wort into the carboy on saturday afternoon. Today (wednesay) the bubbling has slowed quite a bit and the foam on top was receding.
The lag time was short, bubbling began within 12 hours of pitching the yeast, also i did as much aeration as possible with "manual" techniques.
At the peak of fermentation the foam was about 1.5 inches thick and the bubbling was constant but not very vigorous.
Lastly what has me most concerned now is my choice of yeast. I used 1968 london esb, which apparently is highly flocculent. Is it possible/likely that the yeast has settled out before attenuation is complete, and can i shake up the carboy to get it going again or will this be bad for the beer in some way (shaking the carboy)?
[temps were between 62-65 the whole time]
thanks, sorry for the long post