I pitched my first extract on Saturday night, all went well even although the kitchen looked like a bomb had hit it. By last night the bubbler was going at it, as I would have expected, at a nice steady rate. I got up at 5am today to get ready for work and it was going a little bit faster but still nothing untoward. I've came home today to find the bubbler filled with foam as the FV has completely filled :party:
I've never had anything even remotely like this using the kits, so that was the first difference I noticed with the extract recipe. While there was a little bit of wort spilled out around the bung I thought it would be rude not to have a little sniff of it. OMG it smells like beer..... decent beer! Obviously this was the second difference I noticed as with the kits there is that clinical homebrew smell/taste from everything and 9 times out of 10 the odour is very pungent and often eggy. Nothing like this, at worst I would describe the smell as a slightly sweet/stale beer.
So... looks like I'm on the right track. I've never had a kit look like this when fermenting, the foam is often very thin with absolutely zero body. This looks to have cracking body and head already, and it's only 2 days old.
As a little sidenote my bubbler is now acting very strange. I'm assuming this will be down to the amount of foam or something like that. Nothing will happen for a good 20 seconds, then all of a sudden it will erupt in a furious vent of bubbles.... for a good few seconds, before subsiding for another break.
Fascinating stuff, I'm expecting good things now :pray:
I've never had anything even remotely like this using the kits, so that was the first difference I noticed with the extract recipe. While there was a little bit of wort spilled out around the bung I thought it would be rude not to have a little sniff of it. OMG it smells like beer..... decent beer! Obviously this was the second difference I noticed as with the kits there is that clinical homebrew smell/taste from everything and 9 times out of 10 the odour is very pungent and often eggy. Nothing like this, at worst I would describe the smell as a slightly sweet/stale beer.
So... looks like I'm on the right track. I've never had a kit look like this when fermenting, the foam is often very thin with absolutely zero body. This looks to have cracking body and head already, and it's only 2 days old.
As a little sidenote my bubbler is now acting very strange. I'm assuming this will be down to the amount of foam or something like that. Nothing will happen for a good 20 seconds, then all of a sudden it will erupt in a furious vent of bubbles.... for a good few seconds, before subsiding for another break.
Fascinating stuff, I'm expecting good things now :pray:
