Tobyone
Well-Known Member
so this past weekend I brewed a canned extract kits (muntons wheat beer). this by all accounts should be my last canned extract kit before I move to bigger and badder partial mash or all grain.
Saturday I brewed as directed but instead of just adding the 2.2 lbs. of dextrose I also added a pound of light DME I had left over from a previous brew. I figured no big deal. My starting gravity was 1.060, higher than the recommended 1.040-1.044. So instead of just pitching the 7.oz of dry yeast that came with the kit I re-hydrated it and added another 7 oz. of yeast along with it. Added the re-hydrated yeast about 4:00 p.m.
Fast forward to Sunday morning. I woke up about 6 a.m. to let the dogs out and thought I would check on it to see it there was any action in the air lock. Sure enough there was. Not much but a bubble about every 5-6 seconds.
Fast forward to 11:00 a.m. I get back from the grocery store and check again. Holy crap there was some serious action going on. Krausen was bubbling up through the air lock now. I got worried that there may be a problem because I didn't have a blow off tube to attach to it so i figured that I would just keep an eye on it and say a prayer that it didn't blow!
Fast forward to this morning. everything seems good. not near the action there was yesterday. The air lock is still active, a bubble about every 1-2 seconds but nothing coming out of the air lock. Seems to have slowed significantly. Now after all that here's the question, Is that normal? I mean it seems to me that it is because the other kits I have done have shown activity quickly and air lock activity has stopped after a day or two but none of them have had a starting gravity that high. Thanks for any input.
Saturday I brewed as directed but instead of just adding the 2.2 lbs. of dextrose I also added a pound of light DME I had left over from a previous brew. I figured no big deal. My starting gravity was 1.060, higher than the recommended 1.040-1.044. So instead of just pitching the 7.oz of dry yeast that came with the kit I re-hydrated it and added another 7 oz. of yeast along with it. Added the re-hydrated yeast about 4:00 p.m.
Fast forward to Sunday morning. I woke up about 6 a.m. to let the dogs out and thought I would check on it to see it there was any action in the air lock. Sure enough there was. Not much but a bubble about every 5-6 seconds.
Fast forward to 11:00 a.m. I get back from the grocery store and check again. Holy crap there was some serious action going on. Krausen was bubbling up through the air lock now. I got worried that there may be a problem because I didn't have a blow off tube to attach to it so i figured that I would just keep an eye on it and say a prayer that it didn't blow!
Fast forward to this morning. everything seems good. not near the action there was yesterday. The air lock is still active, a bubble about every 1-2 seconds but nothing coming out of the air lock. Seems to have slowed significantly. Now after all that here's the question, Is that normal? I mean it seems to me that it is because the other kits I have done have shown activity quickly and air lock activity has stopped after a day or two but none of them have had a starting gravity that high. Thanks for any input.