I don't sample at the top, I take a sample at the bottom of my conical fermenter. The airlock bubbles sometimes, not really at regular intervals. it was just enough carbonation that I though hey this is not flat like my last beer that came out of the fermenter. I will leave it and look again...
Took a gravity sample with my hydrometer yesterday and it was at 1.012, it came out quite foamy so it's probably not done fermenting right? Something i found a bit odd was that it taste like it had carbonated for a bit, is this normal?
I had a Plaato Valve installed beneath my airlock and it was leaking, sprayed starsan on the outside but didn't see any bubbles so it was probably leaking on the sealing rubber on the inside. The gravity was at around 1.020 last friday, the recipe calculator from brewersfriend says I should aim...
Then I probably have an leak somewhere, because I have no bubbles in my airlock. I will spray some star san on the areas it might leak and take a gravity sample saturday or sunday to see what's happening.
Hi everyone,
I'm trying a brown lager (Heineken Gerste) recipe from a book that I found about old Dutch beers.
Recipe:
28L water (14.5L mash, 13.5L sparge)
3.9kg Pilsner malt
155g Carafa 3 malt
48g Hallertau Mittelfrüh pellets
Mash temperatures:
60 min 68C
10 min 75C
Boiled it for 60min...