Hikeon3
Well-Known Member
I brewed a red ale on Friday, pitched yeast at 5pm and then added an AHS add pack (corn sugar, maltodextrin, and yeast hulls) around 4 hours later. I woke up the next morning to a VIGOROUS fermentation.
By Sunday morning it had slowed to almost a halt and it appeared to have completely finished fermenting on Sunday evening around 7-8pm. I let it sit until yesterday (Monday) morning when I sat and watched it for a good 3-4 minutes straight and witnessed zero bubbles. So I took a gravity reading at 1.010 down from 1.047 on Friday night.
Is that a normal ferment? ~48 hours with only 15-16 hours of rapid fermentation?
Yeast used was Windsor Ale Yeast (00393) and I rehydrated it in water ~75-80F that had also been used to steeping (I ladeled some of the steeping water out and used it to rehydrate yeast, since it was already ~170F thus sanitary, and let it cool to 80 before rehydrating). The yeast stayed in the warm water for about an hour before I actually pitched to the wort (5pm).
The AHS "add pack" I totally forgot about adding during the boil as I was supposed to. I was wondering why my OG was so low then remembered while Iw as out to dinner with some folks. So when I got back at around 8:30pm I boiled it in a quart of water and added it to the wort, shook, and let her roll.
By Sunday morning it had slowed to almost a halt and it appeared to have completely finished fermenting on Sunday evening around 7-8pm. I let it sit until yesterday (Monday) morning when I sat and watched it for a good 3-4 minutes straight and witnessed zero bubbles. So I took a gravity reading at 1.010 down from 1.047 on Friday night.
Is that a normal ferment? ~48 hours with only 15-16 hours of rapid fermentation?
Yeast used was Windsor Ale Yeast (00393) and I rehydrated it in water ~75-80F that had also been used to steeping (I ladeled some of the steeping water out and used it to rehydrate yeast, since it was already ~170F thus sanitary, and let it cool to 80 before rehydrating). The yeast stayed in the warm water for about an hour before I actually pitched to the wort (5pm).
The AHS "add pack" I totally forgot about adding during the boil as I was supposed to. I was wondering why my OG was so low then remembered while Iw as out to dinner with some folks. So when I got back at around 8:30pm I boiled it in a quart of water and added it to the wort, shook, and let her roll.