Took the first gravity reading today, usually I would try and wait 3 or 4 days, but i’m home from work crook today, so thought I would take a gravity reading so I wasn’t sitting around feeling sorry for myself.
From 1057SG on Saturday to 1022SG this morning, it’s cruising along nicely. Aroma is incredible, the chocolate malt really adds a LOT here, and it tastes DAMN GOOD right now! Mashed a bit lower than I wanted to so expecting to see a FG around 1010 now, but it smells and tastes bloody awesome right now 😀
Had to take the temp controller off the fridge for a few hours last night as I had some mates over to watch the F1, and my keezer controller was on the fritz. I had no idea how much the temp would warm up, it was up to 25c this morning! I expected maybe a degree or two increase overnight, but wow, 7 degrees is a lot more than I expected. As it’s nearing the end of fermentation anyway, i set it to 20c (was 18c at the start of fermentation), and plugged it back into the fermentation fridge, and it was back down to temp in a couple of hours. Not ideal, but should be OK.
Hopefully I can rack to secondary on the weekend and cold crash, then keg it and store it cold for a couple of months until the winter comes. Can’t wait for that first pint! 🙂