Hey Guys,
So I am trying my hand at this style and am wondering why this went from a nice orange color to a dark orange/brown color during active fermentation.
Here are the details:
9.75 LBS 2 Row
1.4 LBS Wheat
1.4 LBS Flaked Oats
.4 LBS Canadian Honey
Wyeast 1318
Irish Moss - 15 mins Boil
Yeast Nutrient - 15 mins boil
Citra, Galaxy, and Mosaic at 10 mins and at Whirlpool.
I still have two dry hop additions left to add. One at 7 days and one at 3 days.
I have not opened the lid at all during fermentation. A lot of what I read, people have said that oxidization has made this style darken. From everything i can tell, this shouldn't have been exposed to oxygen yet at this point. Here are two pictures. First one at 24 hours and the second at 4 days in. I did fill up the carboy a little too much and the aggressive fermentation has pushed krausen into the blowoff causing a little bit of strain at times for the CO2 to push out into my container of Starsan. Could this have been a factor? Let me know what you guys think. Everything is temperature controlled at 68F.
So I am trying my hand at this style and am wondering why this went from a nice orange color to a dark orange/brown color during active fermentation.
Here are the details:
9.75 LBS 2 Row
1.4 LBS Wheat
1.4 LBS Flaked Oats
.4 LBS Canadian Honey
Wyeast 1318
Irish Moss - 15 mins Boil
Yeast Nutrient - 15 mins boil
Citra, Galaxy, and Mosaic at 10 mins and at Whirlpool.
I still have two dry hop additions left to add. One at 7 days and one at 3 days.
I have not opened the lid at all during fermentation. A lot of what I read, people have said that oxidization has made this style darken. From everything i can tell, this shouldn't have been exposed to oxygen yet at this point. Here are two pictures. First one at 24 hours and the second at 4 days in. I did fill up the carboy a little too much and the aggressive fermentation has pushed krausen into the blowoff causing a little bit of strain at times for the CO2 to push out into my container of Starsan. Could this have been a factor? Let me know what you guys think. Everything is temperature controlled at 68F.