hollowdp
Well-Known Member
So with the help of an old college roommate who has a few (okay, a lot) of brews under his belt I made my first batch this Saturday. I used an extract recipe with some specialty grains that I picked up from the LHBS to make a Rogue Dead Guy Ale clone. We're also planning on taking some of the yeast we harvested from the blowoff (Wyeast 1056) to brew a 10 gallon all grain SNPA clone at his house next weekend to split. I'm very interested in going all grain so it will be nice to see how it's done as I work to build up my equipment.
The smackpack was smacked late Saturday night and left on the counter over night. I woke up to a bag that looked like it could pop at any second and started my 1L starter. The yeast was pitched at about 6PM on 11/10 into the 64 degree wort. It probably hit high krausen sometime in the wee hours of Monday morning and that's when I swapped the sanitized Erlenmeyer flask out for the bucket filled with sanitizer for the blowoff since the flask was filled. I popped the flask in the fridge with an airlock for the SNPA clone so hopefully that will be ready to go. This morning 11/14 at about 8:30 on my way out the door I checked and I'm getting a bubble out of the bucket every second or so. It smells a bit like apple juice. Is that anything to be concerned about?
I put the pics up on my newly created flickr stream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20797732@N08/sets/72157603167098314/
As you can see there's a lot of proteins at the bottom and a good layer of yeast and then a lot of krausen up at the top. There are also some solids that float up and down with the bubbles being produced. Hopefully they'll settle down once the fermentation slows.
The smackpack was smacked late Saturday night and left on the counter over night. I woke up to a bag that looked like it could pop at any second and started my 1L starter. The yeast was pitched at about 6PM on 11/10 into the 64 degree wort. It probably hit high krausen sometime in the wee hours of Monday morning and that's when I swapped the sanitized Erlenmeyer flask out for the bucket filled with sanitizer for the blowoff since the flask was filled. I popped the flask in the fridge with an airlock for the SNPA clone so hopefully that will be ready to go. This morning 11/14 at about 8:30 on my way out the door I checked and I'm getting a bubble out of the bucket every second or so. It smells a bit like apple juice. Is that anything to be concerned about?
I put the pics up on my newly created flickr stream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20797732@N08/sets/72157603167098314/
As you can see there's a lot of proteins at the bottom and a good layer of yeast and then a lot of krausen up at the top. There are also some solids that float up and down with the bubbles being produced. Hopefully they'll settle down once the fermentation slows.