Re: Lowans bread yeast
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2015 5:51 pm
Sam. wrote:I would love to see you try a 200L wash with scaled up ingredients to see the results :handgestures-thumbupleft:
My biggest brew pot is only 85 litres hehe. But if you want to try it make sure you record the first 30 minutes as that is the most active foam period. ;)
I've got a 16% ABV wash going right now (small batch like my other tests), it's already consumed about 6g of CO2 in one hour which is pretty good, similar to the 8% wash so far. I wonder when it's going to slow down. When it gets to ~52g of CO2 lost it should be finished, so it's already ~12% finished in one hour. Which is actually very similar to the 4% wash too. So it seems the sugar concentration is having almost no effect on early stage of production.
When the ethanol content goes up this must be when the production starts to slow. So you can throw one myth away already that the sugar concentration itself has an impact on yeast, at least when you pitch a lot it doesn't seem to.