tomtom
Active Member
Saturday afternoon I brewed my second batch ever. It's a NB Phat Tyre Ale that was supposed to have an OG of 1.052. Well I steeped my re-crushed grains, then made sure I squeezed as much wort from them as possible. I brought my wort up to a boil, then removed it from the heat to add my extract and DME. I made sure that not a drop of extract was left in the jug; rinsing it out well. I also made sure to dissolve the DME completely. I added both types of hops when I was supposed to , chilled, transferred to my 6.5 carboy, pitched, manually aerated and then checked the OG. Wow, it was 1.058/1.060. I stuck the airlock in at 4:00pm and left with my family for the evening.
At 10:30pm it was already fermenting like crazy with a 1" kreusen. No problem. I wake up Sunday morning to fing it blowing up through the airlock. I install the blow-off tube and it's going to town. Late last night it had settled down so I re-installed the cleaned-up airlock.
My question is should this be expected since the the OG was so much higher than was called for? And what should I expect down the road through secondary, bottling and ultimatly consumption? The yeast that was supplied with the kit was the Belgian Abbey II.
At 10:30pm it was already fermenting like crazy with a 1" kreusen. No problem. I wake up Sunday morning to fing it blowing up through the airlock. I install the blow-off tube and it's going to town. Late last night it had settled down so I re-installed the cleaned-up airlock.
My question is should this be expected since the the OG was so much higher than was called for? And what should I expect down the road through secondary, bottling and ultimatly consumption? The yeast that was supplied with the kit was the Belgian Abbey II.