Fermentor Experiment - with one yeast substitution

I usually brew higher gravity beers and smaller batches.

My Boddington's Bitter is taking up three of my four 5 gallon HDPE buckets. I don't have enough fermentor space.

A just boiled another batch Scalded Dog (Two Hearted clone) at 16-1/2 gallons. I am going to improvise.
-(1) 5 gallon carboy - first use of one of these.
-(1) 5 gallon Stainless steel pot
-(1) 5 gallon HDPE bucket
-(1) 3-1/2 gallon Stainless Steel pot
- small test batch- with Fleishman's baker's yeast.

I'm suffering growing pains.

Rad, I look forward to the results.

Well, After cooling on the back deck, I ended up with enough wort to give a decent fill on:
(1) 6-1/2 Gallon Carboy
(1) 5 Gallon HDPE Bucket
(1) Small Stainless Steel pot with a Pyrex lid

I devided the 3 S-04's between the 5 gallon bucket and the carboy. I pitched the bread yeast in the SS pot with the pyrex cover.

This being my first time with a carboy, I had a friend that told me to use vodka for the airlock. It started sucking drops of vodka back in. I loosened it up a bit till all the temp/pressure equals out.

This should be fun. I'll be able to watch the fermentation in two of these fermentors.

The plastic bowl on the left is the bread yeast. It had developed a good solid ball of kreusen. It reminded me of blown insulation.

My pictures are out of order very apparently. The three pots on the back deck was last night. The three pots on the counter is this morning. The yeast pictures were all last night.

In the picture with the SS pot you can see the lump of re-hydrated yeast. I don't stir these in, I just pour with gusto and call it good.

I'll have to see if I can catch some video in a couple hours. I'm really confident these are going to take off well.

Video - My new-to-me Android.

My carboy video

....oh, and by the way, if it is any indication, the bread yeast batch smells really good.

Early results show the [edit] bread yeast batch is pretty good.



This is a Two Hearted clone, your results may vary.

EDIT - It's Red Star yeast. I just noticed.

I can't believe it only took it down to 4.8%

Brulosopher said:

I can't believe it only took it down to 4.8%

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I re-ran it:

http://dd26943.com/davesdreaded/tools/convert.htm

1.056 OG, 1.010 FG came out to 5.99%

Dynachrome said:

I re-ran it:

http://dd26943.com/davesdreaded/tools/convert.htm

1.056 OG, 1.010 FG came out to 5.99%

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Now that makes sense.

Dynachrome said:

Early results show the [edit] bread yeast batch is pretty good.



This is a Two Hearted clone, your results may vary.

EDIT - It's Red Star yeast. I just noticed.

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I opened the last bottle of "Liquid Bread" two nights ago. It had cleared up and was quite drinkable.