claymundo
New Member
I've been a home brewer now for six or seven years, off and on. Just relocated to San Francisco, upgraded my equipment and brewed a Porter this weekend using a new all grain set-up.
I had a great yeast starter going, fully active, American Ale yeast. I did an iodine test on the wort we pulled from the mash tun before the boil that we read as having good starch conversion. This should be a pretty big beer, started with 11 lbs of grain plus 1 lb each of honey and molasses.
I pitched the yeast at 78 and we had active fermentation within 6-8hrs. By the next morning, the thing was going crazy...I almost got knocked out by the amount of CO2 that had accumulated in the closet where we I keep the primary. Now, by day 3, it looks like its almost completely finished. The temperature is still at about 74, the yeast head is starting to rescind, and I'm getting a huge cumulation of yeast on the bottom of the carboy. Still a bubble every few seconds, but definitely on its way to be finished in the next 12 hrs.
Is this possible? Did I really do it right this time and get primary fermentation in 72 hrs, or did I screw something up? Curious if anyone else has ever been able to achieve fermentation this quickly on a 5 gallon batch.
I had a great yeast starter going, fully active, American Ale yeast. I did an iodine test on the wort we pulled from the mash tun before the boil that we read as having good starch conversion. This should be a pretty big beer, started with 11 lbs of grain plus 1 lb each of honey and molasses.
I pitched the yeast at 78 and we had active fermentation within 6-8hrs. By the next morning, the thing was going crazy...I almost got knocked out by the amount of CO2 that had accumulated in the closet where we I keep the primary. Now, by day 3, it looks like its almost completely finished. The temperature is still at about 74, the yeast head is starting to rescind, and I'm getting a huge cumulation of yeast on the bottom of the carboy. Still a bubble every few seconds, but definitely on its way to be finished in the next 12 hrs.
Is this possible? Did I really do it right this time and get primary fermentation in 72 hrs, or did I screw something up? Curious if anyone else has ever been able to achieve fermentation this quickly on a 5 gallon batch.