| | Its day two of fermentation on for my latest beer, a Belgian Tripel, and I woke up to go take a peek. I'm using my plastic fermenter for four gallons, even through the plastic its clear that this beer is alive. My airlock is moving quickly, about two or three times every other second. The krausen is rising, so far it looks like a hefty 3 inches.
12.5 Lbs pilsener malt mashed one hour at 153 deg f single infusion. Runnings were hazy a bit longer than last batch, 2 more qts re circulated.
Sparged 3.5 gal at 165 deg f. Collected a scant 4 gallons of wort, there was more in the tun. Should have used the rest to ferment a nice small lager. Lessons learned I guess.
Boiled 1 hr with 1lb candi sucrose (adjunct) and 1/2 lb pilsener DME (just in case  )
OG read a little shy of the spec 1.081, more like 1.065. hopefully the dme and sucrose gave a decent boost. Will have to thief a sample to test another time...I'm late for work
Pitched at 74 deg f, got some orval to culture bottling yeast at another time.
EDIT 08/03/08
Took FG reading today, 2 weeks in secondary left the beer at 1.010, just off of the 1.012 target. Reading past notes reminded me that the OG was running low. I'm interested to see whats going to happen.
Force carbed at 15 psi for one hour...
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