pnutbutterfluff
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I brewed my first ever batch of beer on 7/4 using an Ale kit from MoreBeer that came with my kit. All went well so far I think I just have some fermentation questions.
First how it went then my questions.
I put my cooled wort into my fermenter I had throughly sanitized with StarSan and still had a decent amount of foam in it when I transferred the wort in. This foam remained and still does today (7/7) I am not sure if now it is just krausen but either way there is still a good amount. Upon original transfer I did have a little of the hops go in very little but did see it in that foam. My original gravity was 1.044. I poured contents of one packet of sanitized Cali dry yeast (CellarScience) straight into fermenter with wort at 75degF at that time. First day were fermenting at 74degF then second day found a better spot in my house and has been at 65degF since then. I just took a sample and my SG at day 3 is 1.012. I also sampled it and it tastes really good not what I was expecting for ale because it has so much flavor and a noticeable hop flavor.
Questions:
1. Is that a really fast fermentation change in SG?
2. Is the krausen (possible persistent StarSan foam) going to hurt anything?
3. According to my recipe I am .002 from my target FG what if I hit this in a few days do I bottle? Or do I need to let yeast complete there thing and clean-up and wait till SG is stable multiple days and foam has gone?
Thank you for your help. I realize on rereading this I seem to have a foam complex with this first batch.
Photo is today Day 3.
First how it went then my questions.
I put my cooled wort into my fermenter I had throughly sanitized with StarSan and still had a decent amount of foam in it when I transferred the wort in. This foam remained and still does today (7/7) I am not sure if now it is just krausen but either way there is still a good amount. Upon original transfer I did have a little of the hops go in very little but did see it in that foam. My original gravity was 1.044. I poured contents of one packet of sanitized Cali dry yeast (CellarScience) straight into fermenter with wort at 75degF at that time. First day were fermenting at 74degF then second day found a better spot in my house and has been at 65degF since then. I just took a sample and my SG at day 3 is 1.012. I also sampled it and it tastes really good not what I was expecting for ale because it has so much flavor and a noticeable hop flavor.
Questions:
1. Is that a really fast fermentation change in SG?
2. Is the krausen (possible persistent StarSan foam) going to hurt anything?
3. According to my recipe I am .002 from my target FG what if I hit this in a few days do I bottle? Or do I need to let yeast complete there thing and clean-up and wait till SG is stable multiple days and foam has gone?
Thank you for your help. I realize on rereading this I seem to have a foam complex with this first batch.
Photo is today Day 3.