Brewed up an attempt at the style this weekend! Color looks nice going to the fermenter! She took off very nicely. Pitched yeast at 230-3pm on Saturday, had activity start around 11pm based on readings from the tilt hydro. As of today, tilt hydro says it's at 1.030ish (1.066 to start).
I've been having some lag issues on the last few batches that I've done where I haven't seen any activity through the blowoff until 48 hours later or longer, so this was a nice and welcome change to see activity by 8-9 hour mark. Only thing I did differently was used whirlfloc and yeast nutrient in the boil. Not sure how much either of those would help...?
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not sure is whirlfloc and or yeast nutrient help with “take off time” but perhaps is the whirlfloc drops out stuff you don’t want in the fermenter eventually, it would provide a more “hospitable” environment for the yeast to do their thing more quickly? Not sure. Unless I’m using kviek, most all my fermentation’s for this style start taking off between 8-12hrs post pitch but I use whirlfloc every time. Interesting but not sure of that association