So, I did my first all grain brew - an IPA! 15 pounds of 2-row and .5 # each of crystal, white wheat and carapils for 16.5# total. Mashed at 152 in a cooler. Boiling to pitching temp in apx. 15 minutes with a coil chiller. OG was 1.072.
Yeast: Wyeast 1056. Did a 1.9L starter with verified 1.04 gravity. 22 hours on a new stir plate. Put in the fridge overnight. Decanted and pitched at 6:00 pm at 68 deg.
Had a real good fermentation going the next morning & maintaining 68 deg. 3 inches krausen but none going through a blowoff tube on a 6.5 gal glass carboy with 5 gallons of wort. Very vigorous fermentation though - lots of action.
At 60 hours from pitching, there were no more bubbles. I had forgotten to plug in my temp controller(the night before - stc1000) and temp got down to 64 deg. for less than probably 6 hours, so I swirled carboy and got back to 68 deg with fermwrap. Still no bubbles. Did a few more swirls throughout the day and no bubbling.
Checked Gravity at 108 hours (4.5 days) from pitching cause I thought I might have had a stuck ferm. and sitting at 1.012. :rockin:
I thought this was a rather fast fermentation, with no bubbles after 60 hours.
So, I guess I'm wondering, do others find it common to have no bubbler activity after 60 hours from pitching and have reached their FG so quickly?
Yeast: Wyeast 1056. Did a 1.9L starter with verified 1.04 gravity. 22 hours on a new stir plate. Put in the fridge overnight. Decanted and pitched at 6:00 pm at 68 deg.
Had a real good fermentation going the next morning & maintaining 68 deg. 3 inches krausen but none going through a blowoff tube on a 6.5 gal glass carboy with 5 gallons of wort. Very vigorous fermentation though - lots of action.
At 60 hours from pitching, there were no more bubbles. I had forgotten to plug in my temp controller(the night before - stc1000) and temp got down to 64 deg. for less than probably 6 hours, so I swirled carboy and got back to 68 deg with fermwrap. Still no bubbles. Did a few more swirls throughout the day and no bubbling.
Checked Gravity at 108 hours (4.5 days) from pitching cause I thought I might have had a stuck ferm. and sitting at 1.012. :rockin:
I thought this was a rather fast fermentation, with no bubbles after 60 hours.
So, I guess I'm wondering, do others find it common to have no bubbler activity after 60 hours from pitching and have reached their FG so quickly?