FermentFriend
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Hi Folks,
I'm new to the forum & it's a delight to read like-minded heads here - look forward to some lively discourse.
I've a question about secondary fermentation & would really appreciate any feedback you may be able to offer please.
I have been successfully making my own tepache for over a year.
Secondary fermentation has always yielded excellent results by straining/filtering liquid contents of my 5l Kleiner vessel into 1 litre airlock bottles & burping daily for a week + before bottling for consumption.
I'd like to avoid the use of having to burp umpteen 1litre bottles as I'm making larger batches now & recently experimented w/ a 5 litre glass demijohn for the first time (phots attached).
I added approx 4 litres to the demijohn & half-filled the airlock device with water & put it in the rubber bung & pushed it down.
Within a day or two the water in the airlock began to percolate a little - not as much as I might have expected but there were "signs of activity".
I opened it up by removing the bung after Day 5 & tasted the brew - it was completely flat. No carbonation whatsoever & it tasted a bit like off-beer.
I really need this process to work for me with my tepache - is there anything obvious Im doing wrong or I need to double-check here to eliminate what appears to be my first wasted batch?
I wasn't sure how deep to push the rubber bung & can only presume air was escaping via it or the airlock device - did it perhaps not have enough water in it?
How deep should I bung the bung...?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I have 20l brewing in the shed ready for secondary fermentation very soon & hope to use at least 10l of that in my 2x 5 l glass demijohns.
Thanks a million,
Pete
I'm new to the forum & it's a delight to read like-minded heads here - look forward to some lively discourse.
I've a question about secondary fermentation & would really appreciate any feedback you may be able to offer please.
I have been successfully making my own tepache for over a year.
Secondary fermentation has always yielded excellent results by straining/filtering liquid contents of my 5l Kleiner vessel into 1 litre airlock bottles & burping daily for a week + before bottling for consumption.
I'd like to avoid the use of having to burp umpteen 1litre bottles as I'm making larger batches now & recently experimented w/ a 5 litre glass demijohn for the first time (phots attached).
I added approx 4 litres to the demijohn & half-filled the airlock device with water & put it in the rubber bung & pushed it down.
Within a day or two the water in the airlock began to percolate a little - not as much as I might have expected but there were "signs of activity".
I opened it up by removing the bung after Day 5 & tasted the brew - it was completely flat. No carbonation whatsoever & it tasted a bit like off-beer.
I really need this process to work for me with my tepache - is there anything obvious Im doing wrong or I need to double-check here to eliminate what appears to be my first wasted batch?
I wasn't sure how deep to push the rubber bung & can only presume air was escaping via it or the airlock device - did it perhaps not have enough water in it?
How deep should I bung the bung...?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I have 20l brewing in the shed ready for secondary fermentation very soon & hope to use at least 10l of that in my 2x 5 l glass demijohns.
Thanks a million,
Pete