chrisdb
Well-Known Member
I'm on my second all grain brew using belgian abby yeast washed from a previous AG brew, pitched into wort OG of 1.050 8 days ago.
I had moderate activity within 24 hours and good krausen, but the krausen hasn't dropped yet, and I haven't seen any activity for days.
I took a gravity reading of 1.012 and sampled the fermented wort and it seems to me that there are no off flavors and I believe the fermentation is completed. My calculation puts the ABV at a little below 5%, not what was intended but I missed the OG by a mile, and the OG/FG ratio seems reasonable and the wort seems to have a good flavor with little residual sweetness.
My problem now is how to clear the wort.
If the yeast is really exhausted I could carb under pressure in a keg, and am tempted to rack into a secondary and drop the carboy into a keezer (at 4 celcius) to maybe cold crash to clear the beer.
so I have two questions
1- what is the best way to clear the beer- rack, rack and cold crash, or leave it in primary?
2-what happened with the krausen not dropping? no problems flocculating with the first brew from the yeast, but the washed yeast seemed to ferment well but not 'clean up' after themselves
I had moderate activity within 24 hours and good krausen, but the krausen hasn't dropped yet, and I haven't seen any activity for days.
I took a gravity reading of 1.012 and sampled the fermented wort and it seems to me that there are no off flavors and I believe the fermentation is completed. My calculation puts the ABV at a little below 5%, not what was intended but I missed the OG by a mile, and the OG/FG ratio seems reasonable and the wort seems to have a good flavor with little residual sweetness.
My problem now is how to clear the wort.
If the yeast is really exhausted I could carb under pressure in a keg, and am tempted to rack into a secondary and drop the carboy into a keezer (at 4 celcius) to maybe cold crash to clear the beer.
so I have two questions
1- what is the best way to clear the beer- rack, rack and cold crash, or leave it in primary?
2-what happened with the krausen not dropping? no problems flocculating with the first brew from the yeast, but the washed yeast seemed to ferment well but not 'clean up' after themselves