Toxxyc
New and loving it
Good morning ladies and gents! This weekend I started another extract brew (I'm doing extracts, by the way, still learning the ropes), being a Mangrove Jack's Dutch Lager tin paired with a bag of No 60 (German Lager) DME from Brewcraft/Copper Tun. OG was a bit lower than I expected and came in at 1.038.
That's not a bad thing at all, since I was aiming for a light, easy to drink, sessionable lager with the temperatures ramping up here in South Africa for the upcoming summer. I'm just wondering - can it be done already? I pitched on Saturday afternoon, so it spent about 4 days in the fermenter and the airlock activity is dead. Krauzen is declining and dropping and there seems to be no fresh CO2. I'm planning on keeping it in the fermenter for AT LEAST 2 weeks to give it a chance to clean up well enough, but if I don't have to worry about keeping the airlock topped up that would be great. Can just fill it and move it to a cool spot in the house until 2~3 weeks is done.
As mentioned in the title, I used Mangrove Jack's M54 Californian Lager yeast. Fermentation temperature has been a constant 18°C where I dropped it to after pitching at 20°C. Yeast was rehydrated as per instructions.
That's not a bad thing at all, since I was aiming for a light, easy to drink, sessionable lager with the temperatures ramping up here in South Africa for the upcoming summer. I'm just wondering - can it be done already? I pitched on Saturday afternoon, so it spent about 4 days in the fermenter and the airlock activity is dead. Krauzen is declining and dropping and there seems to be no fresh CO2. I'm planning on keeping it in the fermenter for AT LEAST 2 weeks to give it a chance to clean up well enough, but if I don't have to worry about keeping the airlock topped up that would be great. Can just fill it and move it to a cool spot in the house until 2~3 weeks is done.
As mentioned in the title, I used Mangrove Jack's M54 Californian Lager yeast. Fermentation temperature has been a constant 18°C where I dropped it to after pitching at 20°C. Yeast was rehydrated as per instructions.