Checked on this today after four days in primary and it had hit its 1.012 target perfectly – nice.
I transferred it into a secondary bucket, leaving all the break and yeast crud behind, and just taking nice clean brown hoppy beer looking stuff into a new home where it will now sit for about ten days.
After checking my hop stocks I found that for some reason I’d left behind a measly 21g of Styrians the other night instead of throwing it in as extra aroma hops. So I boiled up a muslin, some marbles and some thread and bagged the extra hoppage up, popping into the secondary for seven days of dry-hopping.
The secondary is burping once again, so I actually expect this to drop a few points further over that time, but it really has no need to on my account, it smells good and is strong enough for me. Nice colour too, so I’m pretty happy all in all. Plenty of time to screw it up still though.
- Very clean and clear after just four days ferment and hitting the required 1.012
- Huge amounts of break and a vigorous ferment left a huge yeast cake
- No idea why I didn’t add this to the boiler, but it won’t be wasted
- A muslin, a couple of marbles, some thread and a ten minute boil
- Once the marbles had cooled and the thread attached, it all went into secondary for a week