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By Eric Kahler on Mar 4th 2006, 10:13 pm
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Last Saturday I brewed my 1st saison. Made the starter a week ahead of time (my 1st starter)and pitched the whole thing when I was done brewing. Im sure that I added too much DME to the starter but what the hay, live and learn. Any way, I had airlock activity in 4 hours and 4 hours later it was going like gang busters, so much that I readied the blow off tube. 12 hrs later all activity had ceased. I let it sit at 78F (outside the fermenter water jacket) for 3 days. I popped the lid and took a gravity reading and it was 1.040...It smelled excellent. Wow, way to high FG and not close to being done. I knew it was too good to be true, so I pitched a sachet of coopers ale yeast gave it a gentle stir. I swirled the wort up gently and I now have active fermentation again..I guess as experiments go I will just have to wait and see if I have ruined it or not.. |
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