BrewNoob78
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Hey Everyone,
I am new to the forum and have been brewing with a group of my friends for the last 3 years. Needless to say this year was our first year we invested in new equipment (Big Mouth Fermenters, Thermo Blankets, Temp Monitor/Regulators) as we were just using an old dusty coat closet before with nothing but our normal house temp conditions and no monitoring of actual wort temp in place while fermenting.
So our first two beers this year lacked very much in that the fermentation stalled out. I am chalking this up to strictly poor aeration as the first batch was barely rocked and pitched and the second was aerated for 2 minutes using a aquarium pump and micron stone with an inline filter that looked to actually inhibit the pump from pushing out enough air. We found this to be the case on our now third batch of the year, so we removed the inline filter and after thorough sanitation ran the micron stone in the beer for 20 minutes and aeration was producing a nice foam layer on top (maybe an inch or two high). This showed me that it made a definite difference. Now onto the actual issue I have...
Obi Ron (extract kit)
.5 lbs Bairds Light Carastan Malt (Specialty Grains)
3.15 lbs Wheat Malt Syrup
1 lb Golden Light DME
3.15 lbs Wheat Malt Syrup (10 min late addition)
1oz Hersbrucker (60 min)
1oz Czech SAAZ (20 min)
1oz Czech SAAZ (10 min)
1oz Centennial (Dry Hop)
Steep 160 - 30 mins
Boil - 3.15 Whe Malt Syrup and 1lb DME. Add hops and final malt at intervals listed above.
Yeast = Cali V Ale = used 1L Starter (Fast Pitch) for 5Gal batch prepped 16+ hours in advance.
Wort pitch temp - 68 degrees
Primary ferm temp - 68 degrees
O.G - 1.059
Fermentation started within 12 hours at 68 degrees. Constant bubble for first day. Then bubble schedule (took readings every 4 hours):
Day 2 - 4-5 secs apart
Day 3 - 7-8 secs apart
Day 4 - 7-8 during the day then fell at night to about 13 secs apart
Day 5 - 17-20 secs, kicked temp up 1 degree (69) 4 hours later back to 13 secs apart
Day 6 - 26 secs apart - first Grav reading 1.034
Day 7 - 17-18 secs apart then dropped off in the evening to 27 secs apart
Day 8 - 23-30 secs apart
Day 9 (today) - 33 secs apart as of this post.
Took another Grav reading and down to 1.031, so certainly still fermenting compared to my day 6 reading, however target abv for this beer is 5.4% which would mean I would have to hit 1.018 F.G. to get that.
Its day 9 already and I am not sure what went wrong, but most posts I see fermentation drops into the Ten Ten range seem to happen within first 5 days. I am in Day 9 and still long way to go. Do I just assume I will not hit the target? Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong? Maybe not enough oxygen? Not sure why its moving as slow as it is. I will just let it be until at least this Saturday which makes week 2 in the primary, but I dont have hopes that 5 days at the slow ferment will net me 1.018 FG.
Thanks for any info.
I am new to the forum and have been brewing with a group of my friends for the last 3 years. Needless to say this year was our first year we invested in new equipment (Big Mouth Fermenters, Thermo Blankets, Temp Monitor/Regulators) as we were just using an old dusty coat closet before with nothing but our normal house temp conditions and no monitoring of actual wort temp in place while fermenting.
So our first two beers this year lacked very much in that the fermentation stalled out. I am chalking this up to strictly poor aeration as the first batch was barely rocked and pitched and the second was aerated for 2 minutes using a aquarium pump and micron stone with an inline filter that looked to actually inhibit the pump from pushing out enough air. We found this to be the case on our now third batch of the year, so we removed the inline filter and after thorough sanitation ran the micron stone in the beer for 20 minutes and aeration was producing a nice foam layer on top (maybe an inch or two high). This showed me that it made a definite difference. Now onto the actual issue I have...
Obi Ron (extract kit)
.5 lbs Bairds Light Carastan Malt (Specialty Grains)
3.15 lbs Wheat Malt Syrup
1 lb Golden Light DME
3.15 lbs Wheat Malt Syrup (10 min late addition)
1oz Hersbrucker (60 min)
1oz Czech SAAZ (20 min)
1oz Czech SAAZ (10 min)
1oz Centennial (Dry Hop)
Steep 160 - 30 mins
Boil - 3.15 Whe Malt Syrup and 1lb DME. Add hops and final malt at intervals listed above.
Yeast = Cali V Ale = used 1L Starter (Fast Pitch) for 5Gal batch prepped 16+ hours in advance.
Wort pitch temp - 68 degrees
Primary ferm temp - 68 degrees
O.G - 1.059
Fermentation started within 12 hours at 68 degrees. Constant bubble for first day. Then bubble schedule (took readings every 4 hours):
Day 2 - 4-5 secs apart
Day 3 - 7-8 secs apart
Day 4 - 7-8 during the day then fell at night to about 13 secs apart
Day 5 - 17-20 secs, kicked temp up 1 degree (69) 4 hours later back to 13 secs apart
Day 6 - 26 secs apart - first Grav reading 1.034
Day 7 - 17-18 secs apart then dropped off in the evening to 27 secs apart
Day 8 - 23-30 secs apart
Day 9 (today) - 33 secs apart as of this post.
Took another Grav reading and down to 1.031, so certainly still fermenting compared to my day 6 reading, however target abv for this beer is 5.4% which would mean I would have to hit 1.018 F.G. to get that.
Its day 9 already and I am not sure what went wrong, but most posts I see fermentation drops into the Ten Ten range seem to happen within first 5 days. I am in Day 9 and still long way to go. Do I just assume I will not hit the target? Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong? Maybe not enough oxygen? Not sure why its moving as slow as it is. I will just let it be until at least this Saturday which makes week 2 in the primary, but I dont have hopes that 5 days at the slow ferment will net me 1.018 FG.
Thanks for any info.