Dhruv6911
Well-Known Member
I recently brewed my first batch of beer (sitting in fermentor for 4 days now) and simply looked over one of the steps. As soon as i cooled the wart after the 1 hour boil with hops, i rapid-cooled it and transferred it into a 6 gal bucket with the pellet hop gunk. I did not filter or remove any of it. I got bubbles on the airlock within 4 hours without using a starter. I should also note that this is the blonde ale all grain from BMW. I measured the initial gravity and it showed potential alcohol by volume to be ~5% or 1.040 so i was pretty close.
My question to you is whether or not that hop gunk will effect the taste of the beer, and how so? Also, today being day 4 of fermentation i am seeing the rate of the airlock bubbling decrease to once every 30 seconds. The temperature remains ~68F. What day do you guys start seeing a decrease in CO2 production similar to this?
I used:
1 oz glacier hops 60 min
1 oz glacier hops 15 min
WLP060
My question to you is whether or not that hop gunk will effect the taste of the beer, and how so? Also, today being day 4 of fermentation i am seeing the rate of the airlock bubbling decrease to once every 30 seconds. The temperature remains ~68F. What day do you guys start seeing a decrease in CO2 production similar to this?
I used:
1 oz glacier hops 60 min
1 oz glacier hops 15 min
WLP060