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drperil@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Congrats! It looks great.

Fair warning about aging in plastic, it might take on some weird flavors ;)

As for the stuff in the bottom, if it’s a white, kinda powdery-floats-into-solution-kind of deal, like silt in water, it’s dead yeast as fermentation continues in the bottle.

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thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
P.s. just attached the sediment pic in a comment. Image upload is acting flakey today.

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thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Thanks.

I have glass bottles but was sick when it was bottling time and it was just easier to use the plastic ones. They’re basically my emergency bottles.

As for the temp, it seems that with this kit it needs to be on the cooler side (18-21c). The room I was doing it in is fairly cool but not that cool and it creeped up to 23c for probably about 10 of the initial 24 hours unfortunately. When I noticed I got the wet towels out which helped a lot.

After that it says to keep is between 15-21 on the online instructions, and 14-18 on the physical ones. I avged about 16c throughout the brew phase so got that okay.

With the warmer weather coming, I’m concerned I won’t be able to keep this cool enough without some extra stuff (was thinking an old freezer unit for insulation, and some kind of wet blanket or ice pack rotation).

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- drperil@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Nice! Haha I get it, I’ve gone right into growlers before when I wasn’t feeling well just to get it done. Only had one blow once lol.
  
  If you’ve got “buy and old freezer” money for this that’s absolutely the best plan. Get that, or just an old form fridge or whatever, as long as it works, and something like this: a.co/d/244s4zY
  
  I have the same one, it’s worked reliably for years.
  
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MuteDog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
That yeast isn’t dead, it’s just gone dormant as there’s no food (sugar) left in the bottle for it to eat. You could easily build up more yeast from the stuff in the bottom of one of these bottles.

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- drperil@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Well yeah ok you could, but for all intents and purposes it’s dead/residual/left over/sediment yeast.
  
  If you’ve were going to harvest yeast better to do it after primary eh.
  
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  - MuteDog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    There are certainly better places to harvest yeast but that doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not the yeast in the bottom of a naturally carbonated bottle of beer is alive or dead. It’s not dead, just dormant.
    
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