SMaSH beer with Golden Promise grain, Motueka hops, and Pomona Yeast.
Day 1: Sunday evening 8pm – Midway through fermentation, gravity 1.038 / abv 3.1%, bubbling away happily at approx. 4psi.
Day 2: Monday morning 9am 1.017 – very fast fermentation. I added dry hop at 10am due to the gravity reading being under 1.020 – it was a little earlier than anticipated but I’m sticking to the numbers on this one – very fast ferment. Attenuation reading at 72.2% with a total likely being around 80% to 85% so Dry Hop now allows for any additional sugars released by the hop enzymes to be processed before the yeast goes dormant (approx. 10% attenuation and 7-8pts gravity to go).
day 5 raised temp to 21C and increased pressure approx 10psi
day 8 temp raised 21 to 22C and spunding valve closed.
end day 11 pressure approx 24psi.
Started gradually reducing temp in small increments to 12C over the next couple days
day 14 reduced temp from 12C to 4C. Let rest for 24hours
day 15 trasnsferred 19L to keg
There was a few hundred mls at the bottom of the fermenter so I poured a taste – it’s promising – likely cloudier and a little more yeast sediment.
