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So I made my first beer last weekend. It's Northern Brewer's Irish Red that comes with their kits. Everything seemed to go ok, though I missed my OG by a bit (1.034). I think I added too much water filling the carboy. That's not the part i'm questioning though.
Put it in the carboy, and I had fermentation within 8 hours. Looked like this the morning after I let it start (14 hours later)
It kept going like that for that day, but by morning the second day the yeast had collapsed. Yeast cake was present for no more than 36 hours. Airlock returned to unpressurized. about 12 hours after the yeast collapsed (fluid in both halves instead of being pushed all into one from CO2 pressure). I'm just looking to see if that seems too short. Maybe it's normal since the OG was so low to begin with, but I wanted to run it by some people.
Other note. I put the beer in a small fridge hoping it would act as a temperature stabilizer since my apartment fluctuates so much in temperature. I've been working on a brewpi setup, but it wasn't done in time, so i had no control. I saw the temp of the carboy drop to 62 at one point. Not sure if that was too cool. Today I got the brewpi setup working, so it's running and I'm trying to bring that up north of 65 now.
So what say you, did I screw up the first brew?
Note: tell me if the picture doesn't show up. I've had some issues on other forums with pictures hosted on pictures.google showing for some people and not others.
Put it in the carboy, and I had fermentation within 8 hours. Looked like this the morning after I let it start (14 hours later)
It kept going like that for that day, but by morning the second day the yeast had collapsed. Yeast cake was present for no more than 36 hours. Airlock returned to unpressurized. about 12 hours after the yeast collapsed (fluid in both halves instead of being pushed all into one from CO2 pressure). I'm just looking to see if that seems too short. Maybe it's normal since the OG was so low to begin with, but I wanted to run it by some people.
Other note. I put the beer in a small fridge hoping it would act as a temperature stabilizer since my apartment fluctuates so much in temperature. I've been working on a brewpi setup, but it wasn't done in time, so i had no control. I saw the temp of the carboy drop to 62 at one point. Not sure if that was too cool. Today I got the brewpi setup working, so it's running and I'm trying to bring that up north of 65 now.
So what say you, did I screw up the first brew?
Note: tell me if the picture doesn't show up. I've had some issues on other forums with pictures hosted on pictures.google showing for some people and not others.