Sunday, September 28, 2008

DEAD YEAST

Started brewing of the Second Red Box brew after a successful Wheat Beer, of course there was to be problems.
The room temperature is at a steady 22-24C, yeast paradise - the yeast was that which comes when you buy the can and I suppose there is always the risk that this could of been too hot, cold, old or just dodgy.
I have replaced the yeast with some more and will see how this goes, the other big thing is with Ginger beer it does not ever seem to take off or react as much as the other brews. This is one thing to keep a close eye on as bottling early can lead to explosions and losses as well as sticky mess to clean up.
Jealous of the Fox keg set up and think in the next house there must be enough room to establish a set up to rival it. Loving the summer weather and definately looking forward to more ales in the sun

2 comments:

Alcifer said...

Mixy, how did you go with the second application of yeast?

McMaster said...

Is sitting at 1.002 has fermented some, will investigate bottling this saturday.