Marty's Riesling - Thursday, February 15, 2014

Putting this 5 week Cru International 8 L kit together today. Need to do a SG check just to see how the yeast is doing. I got a lot of foam in the bucket that holds the Starsan.

O.G. - 1.088

F.G. -  .998

% -     12.2

Checked it a few hours later and it was fermenting away. Now, that was fast. 72F. Heat on.

Day 1 -  Doing okay. 74F.

Day 2 - Same. 74F.

Day 3 - Going good. 74F.

Day 6 - Same. 74F.

Day 7 - 72F for some reason. Turned heat up a smidgen. That wall heater sucks.

Day 8 - 74F. Rack when done no matter how many days it takes.

Day 9 - Seems done, not much activity. Will wait until the 14 day mark to rack. Feb. 29 or so.

Day 10 - Racking today when I check the gravity. .998 = 12%.

              I am very close to the bottom ring in the bucket. I should of went right to it according

              to when I did a water level check in the pails. 

Day 11 - The next day after adding all of the packets I checked if it is starting to clear. It wasn't.

Day 12 - Checked it this morning and it was clearing. Must of had it's work cut out for it when I got

               more trub from the primary than I should of.

                                                Bottled April 3

There was always something on the go that stopped me from bottling this. Doing it on April 3rd

for sure. Good day to do this at it is raining and raining here all day. I got 26 bottles.

                                      IT DOES NOT TASTE SWEET MARTY