This look ok?

[mobius1ski]

I just moved my third five gallon batch from first to secondary fermentation. I am making a rauchbier lager from a ME kit. I used a liquid yeast that took about five days to get started because, as a newb, I didn't know I needed a starter (addressed here).

At any rate, I had a bunch of floaters on top of my krausen when I opened my primary bucket this morning. I just wanted to run this photo past y'all and check whether this looks ok to you. I thought lager yeasts were bottom fermenting, but there was a lot less trub on the bottom of this batch then there'd been on my previous batches.

Everything look ok to you?

 

[twistr25]

Yep looks good. If you were using an actual lager yeast did you get the temps down low enough?

 

[gizmodog51]

not unlikely to have minute particals of hops and grain by products on the krausen.

don't worry......

the krausen will fall /settle back into the liquid. looks like ya have a nice batch going for ya!

cheers!

GD

 

[kh54s10]

It looks good to me also. Now let it be for about 3-4 weeks from brew day.

If it is a true lager are you fermenting the complicated and precise temperature schedule required?

I assume it is one of those kits that are called lagers but are fermented like ales.

 

[mobius1ski]

I don't have equipment precise enough to get it down degree by degree, but I'm going to stick it on the back porch today to get it down to the 30s.