TheFlatline
Well-Known Member
So I pitched onto a yeast cake for the first time 2 weeks ago. Everything went according to plan, and by the time I finished racking my beer into the carboy I could swear I could see clumps of yeast *leaping* off the bottom of the carboy into solution. I had rinsed the yeast about an hour earlier, and that afternoon it had been a trub cake for a previous batch of beer.
20 minutes later on a whim I checked the beer to see what was happening. I had a thick krausen.
3 minutes later I had to rig a blowoff tube as the thing did it's best to replicate Vesuvius. I literally watched the carboy foam and start to try to overflow.
Fermentation went hard and heavy for 15 hours, then calmed down to almost nothing. Pitched Sunday night, no activity and the beer starting to clarify Tuesday afternoon. That was 2 weeks ago. I'll taste it in another week.
We've had eleventy billion threads on yeast having a lag time, anyone else ever have a 20 minute lag time or less?
Let this be a lesson to the n00bs at any rate. The first time you pitch onto a yeast cake, do yourself a favor and have a blowoff tube rigged.
20 minutes later on a whim I checked the beer to see what was happening. I had a thick krausen.
3 minutes later I had to rig a blowoff tube as the thing did it's best to replicate Vesuvius. I literally watched the carboy foam and start to try to overflow.
Fermentation went hard and heavy for 15 hours, then calmed down to almost nothing. Pitched Sunday night, no activity and the beer starting to clarify Tuesday afternoon. That was 2 weeks ago. I'll taste it in another week.
We've had eleventy billion threads on yeast having a lag time, anyone else ever have a 20 minute lag time or less?
Let this be a lesson to the n00bs at any rate. The first time you pitch onto a yeast cake, do yourself a favor and have a blowoff tube rigged.
