gr8shandini
Well-Known Member
Here's the story. A local brewpub wants to add a honey wheat to their lineup so they're holding a one-style homebrew competition. Winner gets to brew a batch of their recipe on the brewpub's equipment and gets credit as a "guest brewer" on the menu. Last day to submit entries is Monday. Trouble is that I only found out about it last Monday, so I did an emergency brew session Monday evening hoping to squeak out an entry.
Fast forward to today: So I pop the top on my fermenter to get a gravity sample and, to my surprise, the krausen is just now starting to fall back into the beer (normally, my ales are done in 4 days). Took a reading anyway. OG was 1.048 and "FG" is 1.007. My original plan was to crash cool today, keg and force carb tomorrow and bottle from the keg tomorrow or Monday.
New plan is pretty much the same, but to force carb to a lower volume to try to account for any residual fermentation that might take place between Monday and the judging. If I do this, am I risking handing in a bottle bomb? Bear in mind that I'm not adding any kind of priming sugar.
PS. Would the "minimum month long primary" crowd please save it on this one. I know a week is a pretty sporty time frame to turn around a beer, but that's the time I have. I'd rather not have 50 replies that all say "OMG, green beer!" I'll leave that up to the judges.
Fast forward to today: So I pop the top on my fermenter to get a gravity sample and, to my surprise, the krausen is just now starting to fall back into the beer (normally, my ales are done in 4 days). Took a reading anyway. OG was 1.048 and "FG" is 1.007. My original plan was to crash cool today, keg and force carb tomorrow and bottle from the keg tomorrow or Monday.
New plan is pretty much the same, but to force carb to a lower volume to try to account for any residual fermentation that might take place between Monday and the judging. If I do this, am I risking handing in a bottle bomb? Bear in mind that I'm not adding any kind of priming sugar.
PS. Would the "minimum month long primary" crowd please save it on this one. I know a week is a pretty sporty time frame to turn around a beer, but that's the time I have. I'd rather not have 50 replies that all say "OMG, green beer!" I'll leave that up to the judges.