Comment on I made a killer wort :(

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Coolcoder360@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  +1 for gravity reading.

  Also 4 days is nothing, give it a week or two at least.

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• tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, I don’t have means to measure that other than carrying the kettle and fermenter around :) Gotta get a meter one of these days.

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  • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The main ingredient in any brewing is patience. I hope you’ll give it time. It hasn’t ever happened to me but I have heard stories of worts that fermented this way. Think of a number of days you’d consider waiting for results, double it, and add a week. While you wait, buy a hydrometer.

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    • tasankovasara@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, I’ve been brewing with a very settled process for a couple of years, and in my experience the fermentation will always have begun by the morning after setting it up. The primary reason I haven’t been taking gravity readings is because I don’t want to lose any of the good stuff (would not pour the OG sample back in), and since my brews tend to just work, I never needed analysis to troubleshoot either.

      I have a threshold valve on the gas breather line, so I can see on a meter if pressure has accumulated, plus a water lock after the meter to show the escaping gas. These have been my references regarding fermentation.

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      • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hmm. My one time I had a completely stuck fermentation like this, I tried a bunch of stuff like messing with the pH and repitching. The only thing that eventually worked was starting something new and pouring the old batch on top of it at the peak of the ferment. It came out okay in the end. Only bothered because it was like $90 of orange blossom honey at stake.

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