YeastFace Brewdays

[YeastFace]

Life got in the way on Monday, but brewing this today.

Mash went swimmingly and hit all pre-boil numbers. Likewise with the boil.

Glad I picked this to brew this week and not a lager, as not sure the chiller would have got much under 20°. In any case wort has gone into fermenter at 27.5°c.

From previous use of Philly Sour, it will take 3 days to get to target PH. Interested to see how the Kveik will interact with the fruit. Reason behind using it is to enhance the tropical fruit aromas, so hopefully it works well.

 

[YeastFace]

Just bottled my mixed ferm thing, will not be repeating that.

Bought a Kegland handheld counter pressure bottlegun to use on mixed ferm stuff. A mix of user error (doubt it's designed for highly carbed beers) and terrible deisgn (the rubber stopper not being held in properly, the plastic trigger not being heat shrunk) made for an awful experience. I couldn't recommend it as the rubber stopper is simply absolute ****.

 

[YeastFace]

Not happy with the bottle fill levels (although there's no chance I didn't cap on foam) so have ordered a line reducer and will try again with the Valpar 3/16" line I have.

 

[YeastFace]

The sour is down to 3.5ph today, so have added the fruit and Mango Madness.

Have done some calculations and based on the PH and Brix provided in the Funkin datasheets, the fruit additions shouldn't change the PH but will give me 6 more gravity points.

Having said that hopefully the Philly Sour can make a start on the fruit before the Mango Madness gets to work and maybe drop it another PH point or two.

 

[YeastFace]

Down to 1.010and 3.4ph last night.

I then read that fruit should be added Post-Fermentation in a Catharina Sour. Whoops.

Not sure I'd want to be adding metabisulphate and then add fruit in any case so this is back to being a regular fruited sour.