Monday, December 26, 2011

APA - 2nd Ferment

After 12 days in the primary time to move APA into the new home.

Moving day - out of primary into secondary
Everything went smooth again.  Easy using the auto-siphon on top of the counter moving it into the secondary.  A note on the fermentation temps, they were typically in the 23-25 range, a little warm by most standards.

Experiment - dry hopped during primary fermentation..
Also for this APA I put the dry hop pellet bag into the primary fermentation.  Looking back should have done this for the secondary rather than primary.  Will be a test for next time.  In most of the forums and other material is supports the dry hopping at the secondary fermentation... which I knew but I'd already opened the outer sealing bag and thought let's give it a shot.

The taste was moderate... I thought the would have been much more hoppiness in the brew, and there was more than the previous batches so it was a win albeit small.

SG at the secondary rack was 1.014, making this a 5.5% so far. 



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