Brewed my second batch yesterday morning before hitting the pool. Used a hefeweizen kit from NB. Here's how it went down:
Original Gravity: 1.052
Terminal Gravity: 1.013
Color: 11.09
Alcohol: 5.16%
Bitterness: 16.2
Ingredients:
3*lb Wheat Liquid 60 m boil
1.0*oz Tettnanger (4.5%) - added during boil, boiled 56.0*m
3.0*lb Wheat Liquid added during boil, boiled 15.0*m
1.0*lb CBW® Bavarian Wheat Powder (Dry Malt Extract) added during boil, boiled 15.0*m
1.0*tsp Irish Moss - added during boil, boiled 15.0*m
1.0*ea WYeast 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen
Everything went according to plan on brew day, except I was 4 minutes late on the hop addition, as you can see. The gravity reading after the wort cooled was spot on.
I came home from work today, the lid looked like it was about to pop off. The airlock had krausen residue clogging it. All seals seemed to be intact. I carefully sanitized and replaced the airlock with another one. Fermentation seems to be continuing nicely. It's been sitting in primary for just about 36 hours now. I'm guessing final liquid volume was a bit too much, or did it just go krausen crazy? I'm sure this has happened to some of you before, right?
I'll take another gravity reading tomorrow or Thursday.
When I hit my goal gravity, how long should I let this sit on yeast? I don't plan to rack to secondary. I plan to bottle this when it's ready.
Thanks in advance for any tips!
Original Gravity: 1.052
Terminal Gravity: 1.013
Color: 11.09
Alcohol: 5.16%
Bitterness: 16.2
Ingredients:
3*lb Wheat Liquid 60 m boil
1.0*oz Tettnanger (4.5%) - added during boil, boiled 56.0*m
3.0*lb Wheat Liquid added during boil, boiled 15.0*m
1.0*lb CBW® Bavarian Wheat Powder (Dry Malt Extract) added during boil, boiled 15.0*m
1.0*tsp Irish Moss - added during boil, boiled 15.0*m
1.0*ea WYeast 3068 Weihenstephan Weizen
Everything went according to plan on brew day, except I was 4 minutes late on the hop addition, as you can see. The gravity reading after the wort cooled was spot on.
I came home from work today, the lid looked like it was about to pop off. The airlock had krausen residue clogging it. All seals seemed to be intact. I carefully sanitized and replaced the airlock with another one. Fermentation seems to be continuing nicely. It's been sitting in primary for just about 36 hours now. I'm guessing final liquid volume was a bit too much, or did it just go krausen crazy? I'm sure this has happened to some of you before, right?
I'll take another gravity reading tomorrow or Thursday.
When I hit my goal gravity, how long should I let this sit on yeast? I don't plan to rack to secondary. I plan to bottle this when it's ready.
Thanks in advance for any tips!