Beer in Car

[toasted]

Hey, first time poster here.

I had a question,
My very first batch went ok, Young's 2x choc stout Clone recipe.
got the wort into the better bottle on friday, started fermenting, had to drive 3 1/2 hours back home over the mountains to philly on Sunday,

I tried to drive as tamely as I could, but due to ****ty roads and whatnot, I'm sure there was plenty of action.

Will the car trip turbulence affect the yeast action?
Does it speed up the process, slow it down, anything?

I had taken off the 3 piece airlock and emptied the water out and replaced it before driving, and then replaced a sanitary watered one when I got home.

 

[eschatz]

You should be fine. I'd try to ferment that sucker as cold as possible. (not below 60 F) That way the yeast are happy and you get a nice clean flavor out of it. I wouldn't worry about it though. The yeastie beasties are pretty resilient. Remember, it takes ALOT to really screw up a beer. I start another batch while this one is brewing.

 

[toasted]

almost all foam has subsided, and I realize that little to no bubbling doesn't necesarilly mean that the yeasts are done, but is it a factor in this case?

 

[defenestrate]

mine usually die down in 4-5 days, but they keep working quietly for a few more days. i go with 10 days in the the primary. take a gravity reading and see if its done its work.
if the gravity is not low enough, maybe give the bottle a good shake and get the yeastys suspended again-has worked for me before.

 

[bull8042]

Hey eschatz, it is "Turn UP the f*#!ing music." And it is from "The Great Shark Hunt" by Hunter S. Thompson.

(sorry to jack the thread, but this thread's title is so fitting to eschatz's question..... carry on!)

 

[eschatz]

Nice, now I have to change it.

 

[Brew-Happy]

Random question: Would that have been considered an open container?? A really BIG open container???

Been in the office staring at dataz too looooooong.:cross:

 

[EvilTOJ]

Shaking and jostling won't do a thing once the wort has started fermenting. At this point, it doesn't matter if you put it in a paint shaker, its going to ferment the same regardless. Shaking at the beginning is to aerate it and get oxygen into the wort for replication purposes. And before anyone says it, all the oxygen gets pushed out when the CO2 gets going.

 

[toasted]

So, all that shaking wouldn't have mixed the foam and other things back into the wort?

 

[BuffaloSabresBrewer]

It may have helped. All that stuff was going to fall back down anyways. It will be perfectly fine.

 

[BADS197]

I drove my ****in Hevy Scotish Ale about 50 miles and the shaking and moving around probably was good for it. I made sure the vodka was topped off and sat it in the cooler that I have in the passenger seat.