jonewer
Landlord.
OK, so my first kitless all-extract brew appears to have stopped fermenting. Completely. Dead as a dodo.
It only actually fermented from monday afternoon through to wednesday morning - by wendesday evening it was dead. But my god, what a ferment! if I had less water in the airlock it would have just been a continous stream of CO2 coming out!
Took and SG reading today as there were still no signs of life. SG is about the 1.014 - 1.016 mark depending on how still and straight I could the bloody hydrometer to rest. OG was 1.050ish
Good news is it tastes great! better than the John Smiths supermarket rubbish I have been reduced to lately, and this is totally green! Not so much as a 72 hours from pitching!
Much less bitter and less hoppy than I had planned though, but I did the hops in a small volume so perhaps utilisation was not too good.
So what do you guys think? To keg or not to keg?
I might just keg it tomorrow regardless but add a bit less priming sugar.
It only actually fermented from monday afternoon through to wednesday morning - by wendesday evening it was dead. But my god, what a ferment! if I had less water in the airlock it would have just been a continous stream of CO2 coming out!
Took and SG reading today as there were still no signs of life. SG is about the 1.014 - 1.016 mark depending on how still and straight I could the bloody hydrometer to rest. OG was 1.050ish
Good news is it tastes great! better than the John Smiths supermarket rubbish I have been reduced to lately, and this is totally green! Not so much as a 72 hours from pitching!
Much less bitter and less hoppy than I had planned though, but I did the hops in a small volume so perhaps utilisation was not too good.
So what do you guys think? To keg or not to keg?
I might just keg it tomorrow regardless but add a bit less priming sugar.
