OK, so this was my first time brewing with nottingham. Ive always used S-05 as my clean ale yeast, but they had just got a new shipment of notty in, so I figured I would try it out. I threw it into a 1.054 american pale saturday evening after rehydrating. Before I went to bed I checked it, and about 6 hours after pitching, it already looked like a hurricane in there. yeast rafts were flying around at like 100mph and the shole thing was churning. The temp on my fermometer said 72, and ambient was only 62 or so, so it was producing some major heat!
This morning I went and looked at it, and the krausen has already fell back in after being a good 3 in high in the peak. I've yet to check it with a hydrometer, but that is insane if it already finished up most of the fermentation in 2.5 days. Is this normal? It fermented between 65-73 the whole time, and now since activity has gone down, its at about 63F.
Im still going to let it sit in the primary for 3 more weeks, but I thought it was crazy how fast this notty ate up my wort
This morning I went and looked at it, and the krausen has already fell back in after being a good 3 in high in the peak. I've yet to check it with a hydrometer, but that is insane if it already finished up most of the fermentation in 2.5 days. Is this normal? It fermented between 65-73 the whole time, and now since activity has gone down, its at about 63F.
Im still going to let it sit in the primary for 3 more weeks, but I thought it was crazy how fast this notty ate up my wort