The last few days the fruit flys in our house have been really bad! We have tossed every piece of produce in the house, but they are still bad. So, time to wage war on this brewery pest! I set out 3 traps and we will see which catches more by morning. From left to right we have apple cider vinegar with a tiny bit of soap, apple cider vinegar with a bit more soap, and half apple cider vinegar half wet hop centenial ipa with the same amount of soap at the middle. Kill them all!
I also noticed that with fall cool weather hitting, the heater in one of my fermentation chambers isn't keeping up. The stout is down to about 13.5 degrees Celsius. Im worried the yeast may have dropped out too early!
I checked the gravity and it is at 1.022. That is a bit high...but it is an oatmeal stout so maybe not too bad. I checked with Keith and he checked the gravity on his batch. He uses a refractometer and his is at 8.5 brix and calculates it out to be about 1.016. I guess we will see if mine continues to drop or not.
I know its taboo to wash yeast from a dark beer, but it use s-04 so much i think ill wash the yeast from this when I keg it!
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