Airlock Activity as a Gauge of Fermentation

[Desert_Sky]

you guys are going to give Revvy a heart attack!!!!

- airlocks as indicators

Dude, brew a couple hundred times and use the airlock as your guide and you'll see. The only time I pull out the hydrometer is when I would brew on a new rig or change configuration in sparge or my MT.

When you know your water profile, grain characteristics, ph, pitching and O2 rates...well you bet your ass you can use airlock as a guide. I use time since pitching mostly, but at a glance I know exactly where I am by what the airlock is doing or not doing.

 

[wildwest450]

and O2 rates

How do you figure this?

 

[bob1852]

Dude, brew a couple hundred times and use the airlock as your guide and you'll see. The only time I pull out the hydrometer is when I would brew on a new rig or change configuration in sparge or my MT.

When you know your water profile, grain characteristics, ph, pitching and O2 rates...well you bet your ass you can use airlock as a guide. I use time since pitching mostly, but at a glance I know exactly where I am by what the airlock is doing or not doing.

my = sarcasm.....

 

[Catt22]

I picked up on the sarcasm right away, but the comment is still valid. If not a heart attack, at least a bad case of hemorrhoids