Notes: Add 10 ml lactic acid after collecting first runnings when bringing to boil to sanitize wort (should be pH 4.5).
BREW DAY (part 1): 19-JUL-19
L. planatarum capsules have not arrived, add 5 once they do.
BREW DAY (part 2): 21-JUL-19
3.44 after 24 hr, 3.35 at time of boiling (~44 hr).
OG looks to be 1.038, so efficiency must not have been as good as expected.
Add 3 ml hop extract at beginning of boil.
UPDATE 23-JUL-19:
Thawed and added both bags of watermelon juice (~0.5 gal) and fermentation promptly ramped up (hit 71F from 68F) and blew bung out of fermenter (noticed next morning). Volumes adjusted to account for sugar and liquid levels of watermelon addition.
Once fermentation is complete, keg with 1 oz hibiscus tea (8 oz RO water boiled) in keg.
Kegged on 27-JUL-19, with FG at 1.008, after 24 hr in kegerator will burst Caen at 40 psi for 24 hr. |
