bigbrewhaha
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First time brewing - and my friend and I decided to go with a Trippel using the Trappist yeast by White Labs.
Took about 24-36 hours to finally take off and once it got going the yeast went wild with fermentation, starting at 65 rises/min up to 85 rises/min as counted from watching a 3 piece airlock (Was told that this may not be a fair way to assess yeast activity, but providing the readings anyway). An hour or so later, activity went down to 45/min and the following morning was as low as 10/min. Now, a day later, the rises seem to be coming very rarely and are very struggled. Temperature has remained somewhat constant. Around 70-72 I would assume, and maybe dropping at lowest 66-68 at night. I know this isn't good but there was not much I could do. It's only been about 5-6 days since initial pitching. Is this normal? I know the cell concentration curve, but would the fermentation activity curve follow the same trend? Should I be worried?
Thanks.
-Bigbrewhaha
Took about 24-36 hours to finally take off and once it got going the yeast went wild with fermentation, starting at 65 rises/min up to 85 rises/min as counted from watching a 3 piece airlock (Was told that this may not be a fair way to assess yeast activity, but providing the readings anyway). An hour or so later, activity went down to 45/min and the following morning was as low as 10/min. Now, a day later, the rises seem to be coming very rarely and are very struggled. Temperature has remained somewhat constant. Around 70-72 I would assume, and maybe dropping at lowest 66-68 at night. I know this isn't good but there was not much I could do. It's only been about 5-6 days since initial pitching. Is this normal? I know the cell concentration curve, but would the fermentation activity curve follow the same trend? Should I be worried?
Thanks.
-Bigbrewhaha