Fermenting IPA, Day 1

For all the hop heads...Day one of my latest IPA, just fermenting...I like to watch...music is Jean Michel Jarre, Oxygene Part 4 which seemed appropriate.

It's an all-grain 10 gal. batch. I used First-wort hopping (some of the hops into the kettle at the very beginning of sparging), which I think adds a nice refined bitterness and more hop flavor.

I use mostly my own homegrown hops (Chinook, Centennial, Horizon, Saaz, Hallertauer, Fuggles, Goldings - though not all in this batch of course).

Cheers

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• IPA
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• homebrew
• hops
• ale
• Jean
• Michel
• Jarre
• Oxygene

[Obiwannabe]

im up to 32 hours or so and i have no signs of fermentation is everything ok? its an IPA im brewing

[Hopspop]

What kind of yeast did you use? 32 hrs is a long time - I'd hit it again with more yeast, in a starter culture if possible (aerate & grow it a bit, then add the slurry to your non-fermenting beer).

Or start a Wyeast smack pack or two, let them puff up, and dump them in - may work.

You could still save it ! Lots can go wrong when cooling the wort & pitching, hard to know without more info.

[JohnLRice]

That's awesome! Great music choice too!

Ya know, with all that movement in there and the foam it makes me think that's what the early Earth looked like when it was in it "primordial soup" phase.

Maybe most of the Earth was actually coved in beer back then and God drank a little too much of it right before he created humans. Might explain a lot! ;-)

[Hopspop]

HaHa! Yes, it would explain a lot - somebody jumped off the deep end somewhere back then, and a little over-indulgence of early ale may have helped!

Yeast is one of the planet's oldest organisms, so you may be on to something - it will outlive us, so will beer or fermented things in some form.

Thanks

[Obiwannabe]

It turned out terrible, i actually did not realize but the temp was to hot when i steeped the grains. =(

I did an IIPA right after that. came out amazing! let me know how the Amber is.

[intentional90]

So how did it turn out?

I'm casking an Amber today...

[Obiwannabe]

it took about 72 hours to start i hit it with some warm water. I racked into secondary last week with a plentiful dry hopped 2 oz of centennial and cascade. thanks for the info though!

cheers