UPDATE: Billy B’s Harrison Lager Brew Day 1-21-23

Checkout the brew day here.

Within 24 hours of pitching yeast I had activity. Woot Woot, this is exciting as this was a yeast pitch I had to grow from a small sample. That is a great start to the fermentation. I let it go at 52F (~11C) after a few days I allowed the temperature to free rise and on the 3rd day fermentation was still pretty steady and temp rose to 61F(16C). On the 4th day I raised the temperature to 68F(20C) to finish out fermentation.

5th night I took a gravity reading and it was down to 1.006 which gives me a nice 5.12% on this brew. Still looking normal and no off smells in the beer. Tossed in the dry hops and left out to finish out the diacetyl rest. After two days no more activity in the jar so I tossed the fermentor into the chamber and started to bring the temperature down to 38F(3.3C).

Cold crashed for 3 days and transferred over to a keg. I won the hat you see in the photos so figured take it for the ride. Pulled out a clean and flushed keg and sanitized my lines. Pushed the sanitizer out of the lines with the pressure in the keg as I hook up to the Anvil Bucket fermentor. From here I apply about 1 psi to the top of the bucket and pressure push the clear beer into the keg. Hit my 41 lbs of beer and shut it down. Cleaned up and put the keg in the fridge to carbonate up.

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