it was recomended to me from a local HBST he said he always cold crashes before he does his secondaries and then bottle's, i was originally going to bottle just from the primary but i'll try this method out as i assume it will give the beer a little longer to age before bottling which will...
my slobber is now as dark as yours and smells like BEER :) can't wait to try it out, just started the cold crash on it today and will be moving to a secondary for a week or two before i bottle it up, can't wait to taste this.
yeah from the reviews i read i should have just done the blowout tube from the start i got about 3 weeks to go before bottling and conditioning i'll be sure to post back up once i get this bottled up and tasted :)
This was my first brew so far 3 days in fermenter and it smells like beer, so i think all is well.
I was just worried that the blowout i had caused an issue with losing too much yeast, also the c02 output on the slobber dropped so quickly i thought i had done something wrong.
my temps are...
my beer has become more dark over the last day or so, this is in a 1 gallon fermenter so color may be off some because of glass thickness and i used a flash on my camera
well i know now that i should have used to tube from the start it was my bad honestly i watched enough video's to know better.
my next question is that my C02 output has seemed to stop and i can barely see any activity with the caribou slobber, i'm not sure if i'm just being impatient or i...
just started brewing so i'm new this whole thing.
I started off with a Caribou slobber i chilled the wort to 75 then added half the packet of the yeast which i soaked in warm water for 15 minutes and then added that to the wort once it got around 75.
i went to bed last night with my...