I was waiting a couple of days for responses to my cry for help because of a fermentation taking a bit longer than the instructions said it should. As a recapitulation, I want to regain my great beer quality that I was getting before my move. This is going to be an ongoing thing until I can eliminate the cause of poor flavor.

So, on Sunday it was still active and there was an inch or two of cap. Two days later, and the cap has fallen and the activity has dwindled. The original gravity of the beer was 1.080 and on Sunday it was 1.020, if it had been even a point or two lower I would have racked. I was just thrown by the activity of the ferment and didn’t want to stall it out, but also wanted to try and be true to my attempt at going back to basics.

Today, the cap is gone and the gravity is 1.018 so I will proceed in racking onto an ounce of leaf cascade, mmmmm. I’m going to hold on to the last ounce of leaf and put that in the muslin bag when I keg just to try something different. See, there I go trying to tweak again. For shame.

I’ll post when its ready to drink. Maybe the local readers want a pint when its ready?

Cheers!