jdanderson1449
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2014
- Messages
- 84
- Reaction score
- 7
Sunday, my buddies and I brewed a first batch of beer.
It's a kit from Midwest, the Peace Java Stout. We followed the instructions to the letter, making sure everything was sanitized and so forth. The friend who's house it's stored at during the fermenting process hands us updates daily.
Well, today, he told us that the bubbling has slowed down. I'm not overly concerned that it's not fermenting just a little concerned that it's doing so too slowly or that it has done so too quickly and there may be a problem.
It started fermenting maybe 6 hours after we pitched yeast, and it is in his basement which could potentially cause it to run slowly. I'm gonna go over there and take a gravity reading tonight and will again tomorrow and on Friday to see if we're stalling or just going slowly.
I will note that our plastic fermenter is on the floor. In the basement. Temperature wise, the basement is fine but, we have had a cold snap overnight and the temperature dropped pretty low but it's the first one of the year so I sort of doubt that it's related to that but I'm going to get it up off the floor anyway to ease my mind.
Other than that, there's not anything to tell. Everything went well, we were careful to sanitize everything and lowered the temperature quickly to pitch yeast. Overall, it was a pretty successful brew day. I even got to drink some beers with my buds. Hopefully in a few more weeks it will be ones we made.
It's a kit from Midwest, the Peace Java Stout. We followed the instructions to the letter, making sure everything was sanitized and so forth. The friend who's house it's stored at during the fermenting process hands us updates daily.
Well, today, he told us that the bubbling has slowed down. I'm not overly concerned that it's not fermenting just a little concerned that it's doing so too slowly or that it has done so too quickly and there may be a problem.
It started fermenting maybe 6 hours after we pitched yeast, and it is in his basement which could potentially cause it to run slowly. I'm gonna go over there and take a gravity reading tonight and will again tomorrow and on Friday to see if we're stalling or just going slowly.
I will note that our plastic fermenter is on the floor. In the basement. Temperature wise, the basement is fine but, we have had a cold snap overnight and the temperature dropped pretty low but it's the first one of the year so I sort of doubt that it's related to that but I'm going to get it up off the floor anyway to ease my mind.
Other than that, there's not anything to tell. Everything went well, we were careful to sanitize everything and lowered the temperature quickly to pitch yeast. Overall, it was a pretty successful brew day. I even got to drink some beers with my buds. Hopefully in a few more weeks it will be ones we made.