KarlHungus76
Well-Known Member
Hi Everyone,
I recently did my first all grain batch which was EdWort's Haus Pale Ale. I thought it had gone fairly well, but after pitching the yeast and noticing that there was initial activity, I had to leave town. After returning four days later, I noticed absolutely zero airlock activity which I felt was strange given that I had just made an extract batch of this brew and while it fermented very quickly, it did not completely stop after 4 days.
Curiosity and a gut feeling said that something wasn't right, I popped the lid and looked into the fermenter, all I saw was about 1/4 inch of krausen residue above the beer level and everything else was still. I gave the bucket a shake, hoping to rouse the yeast and waited another 24 hours, still nothing.
With nothing to lose, I decided to get the beer off the trub and rack to another fermenter, to which I just pitched Safale-05 dry yeast packet into (I used notty originally but only had 2 Safale-05 and a Wyeast American Ale smack pack. I thought the -05 would be a better sub. At any rate, it most likely was the yeast I am assuming (time will tell) but the only recognizable screw up in this batch as far as I could tell, was my initial mash was 158 for about 2 minutes before I corrected to 152 using ice cubes. It was also, very very cloudy compared to my other (extract) worts. I crushed my own grain with a Barley Crusher at factory setting. If it is just a coincidence that the first all grain batch was coupled with some non viable yeast so be it. I know I should likely RDWAHAHB, but I am trying to decide whether or not to brew another batch tomorrow and if it may be something other than the yeast (which is entirely possible since I am admittedly fairly n00b and without ego), I would like to know that for a subsequent batch if I should keep an eye out for something else that may cause this. OG was 1.054 and sadly, i dropped my first hydrometer as I was going to take a current reading. Will replace ASAP.
Thanks
I recently did my first all grain batch which was EdWort's Haus Pale Ale. I thought it had gone fairly well, but after pitching the yeast and noticing that there was initial activity, I had to leave town. After returning four days later, I noticed absolutely zero airlock activity which I felt was strange given that I had just made an extract batch of this brew and while it fermented very quickly, it did not completely stop after 4 days.
Curiosity and a gut feeling said that something wasn't right, I popped the lid and looked into the fermenter, all I saw was about 1/4 inch of krausen residue above the beer level and everything else was still. I gave the bucket a shake, hoping to rouse the yeast and waited another 24 hours, still nothing.
With nothing to lose, I decided to get the beer off the trub and rack to another fermenter, to which I just pitched Safale-05 dry yeast packet into (I used notty originally but only had 2 Safale-05 and a Wyeast American Ale smack pack. I thought the -05 would be a better sub. At any rate, it most likely was the yeast I am assuming (time will tell) but the only recognizable screw up in this batch as far as I could tell, was my initial mash was 158 for about 2 minutes before I corrected to 152 using ice cubes. It was also, very very cloudy compared to my other (extract) worts. I crushed my own grain with a Barley Crusher at factory setting. If it is just a coincidence that the first all grain batch was coupled with some non viable yeast so be it. I know I should likely RDWAHAHB, but I am trying to decide whether or not to brew another batch tomorrow and if it may be something other than the yeast (which is entirely possible since I am admittedly fairly n00b and without ego), I would like to know that for a subsequent batch if I should keep an eye out for something else that may cause this. OG was 1.054 and sadly, i dropped my first hydrometer as I was going to take a current reading. Will replace ASAP.
Thanks