Fermzilla with Rapt pill gravity increasing

[Mick Almost Total Newb]

I am really confused, I have just started my 2nd beer kits with my Fermzilla(a St Peters Plum Porter).
12 hours since I pitched at the gravity showing on the app from the Rapt pill is increasing.

It started at 1.045 and 12 hours later it's showing as 1.052

I charged the pill before this brew and re-callibrated. But can't understand how the gravity could increase like this.

Im wondering if I've somehow put if together wrong.

 

[jof]

How well did you mix the malt & dilution water?
If you didn't mix it well and the heavier malt stayed at the bottom of the barrel at the start.

But diffusion and the yeast generating CO2 bubbles should have mixed it all up by now - so that would be one explaination.

Did the kit instructions tell you what the OG should be, or did you add extra fermentables?

 

[Mick Almost Total Newb]

How well did you mix the malt & dilution water?
If you didn't mix it well and the heavier malt stayed at the bottom of the barrel at the start.

But diffusion and the yeast generating CO2 bubbles should have mixed it all up by now - so that would be one explaination.

Did the kit instructions tell you what the OG should be, or did you add extra fermentables?

I don't think I could have mixed it any more than I did.

The kit had 2 cans of malt, didn't require additional sugar.
Just sprinkle 1 sachet of hops and 1 of yeast after mixing with 3.5l of boiling water then top up to 20l

It doesn't mention the og.

It has actually come down again to 1.038 after going as high as 1.61, and is estimating the alcohol at 3.10 already, which i think is being artificially
Inflated due to that high.

Im annoyed that i didn't remember to check it with a manual hydrometer at the start.

At least it seems to be behaving now.

 

[MashBag]

Throw it away.
A lot of studies have found they don't improve the beer, they just increase the stress of the maker.

If the beer has everything it needs and has started, the best thing you can do is run away.

 

[MashBag]

... Come back of course in about 3 or 4 days and check it.

 

[Mick Almost Total Newb]

I work in I.T. there is no way I could avoid a technical route if one exists.

Yes, ocasionally checking for gas bubbles in an airlock would be far less stressful. But it's just not me.

 

[Bitter_Dave]

Agree with Mashbag on this one.

I really do think these toys are more trouble than they are worth.

If you leave the beer alone for a couple of weeks it will do it's thing. I've been brewing for many years, AG and kits, and I don't recall a single occasion when they were not done in two weeks (or even ten days). Perhaps check the gravity with a hydrometer at bottling stage to make sure it looks sensible, but otherwise leave the beer alone!

 

[Mick Almost Total Newb]

Im not sure my anxiety will allow for that.
My last beer a pilsner took about a week before it started fermenting and overall was over 2 weeks before fermenting started.

I was out for a meal with my better half when I noticed the temperature was increasing when it was supposed to be on a cold crash.
I had to go home and check it out.

Nothing will stop my compulsion for checking it, as least the tech allows me to do that without going near it.

It's what I do all day everyday, work and home. Plan/Do/Check/Act

Would i recommend it to anybody else.
HELL NO!!!

 

[MashBag]

I work in I.T. there is no way I could avoid a technical route if one exists.

Yes, ocasionally checking for gas bubbles in an airlock would be far less stressful. But it's just not me.

Seriously for just a minute (don't worry it won't last )

I worked in mission critical IT, so I know the symptoms.
Take time to smell the flowers of a simple life ooo.
You miss stuff at 200mph. You lose stuff that's gone forever at 200mph.

I was recently referred to on this forum as the "resident ludite". What a smashing compliment. But unless he (the poster) reads this he will never know...

Better now. Get a grip

 

[Mick Almost Total Newb]

Maybe one day I will be able to reach that head space.

But right know, anxiety dictates 99% of my day.

Logic tells me you are spot on with your advice.

 

[Rwilts]

Agree with Mashbag on this one.

I really do think these toys are more trouble than they are worth.

If you leave the beer alone for a couple of weeks it will do it's thing. I've been brewing for many years, AG and kits, and I don't recall a single occasion when they were not done in two weeks (or even ten days). Perhaps check the gravity with a hydrometer at bottling stage to make sure it looks sensible, but otherwise leave the beer alone!

I am a bit half way here .. For years I have just let my beer ferment for 2 weeks , no airlocks and releasing pressure from the plastic buckets if they seemed a little too bulging. They always fermented.

Since moving to a fermizilla I still leave for 2 weeks but I did but an Ispindel several years ago and linked to my Brewzilla batches I can see the graphs which Is great... But do I need this , no , would be quiet happy to just let it run its course - But like a lot of hobbies there is always something you can buy -- But you dont NEED it.

 

[jof]

I work in I.T. there is no way I could avoid a technical route if one exists.

You need to be a bit more cynical.
So many IT things get broken and/or made worse because people jump on the latest band wagon. *Cough* SharePoint *cough* office 365 *cough*

Wait until the north koreans hack your brew kit.

 

[Bitter_Dave]

I am a bit half way here .. For years I have just let my beer ferment for 2 weeks , no airlocks and releasing pressure from the plastic buckets if they seemed a little too bulging. They always fermented.

Since moving to a fermizilla I still leave for 2 weeks but I did but an Ispindel several years ago and linked to my Brewzilla batches I can see the graphs which Is great... But do I need this , no , would be quiet happy to just let it run its course - But like a lot of hobbies there is always something you can buy -- But you dont NEED it.

Ok, fair enough, I get that people want gadgets etc. and if that floats their boat good luck to them. An inkbird is a gadget I can relate to - alongside my fridge and a tube heater it genuinely improves the quality of my beer and once set up (not hard) it simplifies my life as I don't have to worry about fermentation temp.

But in this case of an ispindel treat it like a toy that makes nice pictures rather than something telling you something helpful or meaningful or stresses you out!

But I get that people want different things out of brewing, and the only function I want to use on my phone when brewing is the timer (or maybe a calculator).