fast fermentation?

[Jon75]

I did a biab last Wednesday with some ingredients I had left over. 4.9kg MO, 100g Crystal with fuggles/EKG (aiming for a strong golden), giving an OG of 1.054. Next morning it was bubbling constantly, as in 2 or 3 times a second.

Fast forward to this morning and airlock activity has stopped. Gravity at the moment is down to 1.012, barely 2 days after pitching yeast (dried, Nottingham). Is this normal? The sample tasted rather nice too so currently there are no signs of infections or anything.

 

[MyQul]

Notty is a beast. If you fermented at a high temp (and notty can handle high temps - I've had it up to 27C or so) it's going to ferment quickly

 

[Jon75]

Temperature was about 21C in my cool brewing bag. I actually followed the instruction on the yeast and rehydrated in warm water (can't remember what T it said to use, but it was about 30 I think) before pitching too. The wort was also oxygenated rather well too.

Thanks for the reply, looks like I will be bottling this one sooner than I expected.

 

[Brett74]

might have been 21 in the bag but I bet it was 3 degrees higher at least inside the FV...

 

[Jon75]

Funny you should say that actually. Now that activity has slowed right down, the temperature is now showing 18C.

Anyway, I decided to dry hop this with my remaining 25g of EKG. I am aiming to bottle next Saturday.

 

[pms67]

I said on another thread that I visited a small brewery and he puts out 1200 litres a week, uses Nottingham and ferments at 25 degrees, 3 days and it's done 😳

 

[Jon75]

Thanks for posting those pictures, that is a great set up. I think I need to arrange a brewery tour myself, no doubt I will learn so much.

This beer has only been in the bottle 13 days but I just tried it. Easily the most clear beer (you could probably read through it!) I have done so far, lovely pale golden colour with a nice head and probably the nicest golden I have had so far. I would have taken a picture but I drank it too quickly! Not a sessionable beer at 6% though...