IS THIS POSSIBLE?????????

[Brauntonbeer]

OK - AG No. 4

I created the following receipe...

5kg MO
0.7kg Crystal
0.25kg Caramunch
0.25kg Torrified

60min Mash @ 66c

1.5oz Perle (60)
0.5oz Cent (15)
0.5oz Willamete (flame out)

OG - 1.057

I used some windsor & made a DME starter the night before...

I finished at about 7pm Saturday evo... Got woken at about 4am Sunday night with what can only be described as a buble frenzy... Wondered down to the kitchen, thought to myself alls going well and went back to kip. Woke up a few hours later & heard nothing... Went down stairs to a blocked airlock & a massively bludging lid, Asked the missis if she fancied removing the airlock, to which i received a look of death!!! I removed to get a face of yeast & foam! Anyway rigged up a blow off which was going mental all day, quite litterally bubbling constantly. This continued through Sunday... Woke up this morning - fairly inactive... Took a gravity this evo... 1.011??????????

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN SO QUICKLY? I'm not complaining, just interested... Any thoughts

[Jim]

It's obviously possible, cos it happened!

Did you check the temperature? High temperature = fast fermentation (and possibly off flavours, unfortunately).

[sam c]

i had something very similar with my oatmeal stout. came down the morning after brewday and it had poped out the bottom of the f.v which is one of the fermener types( rather than the bucket) which are prety sturdy. the airlock was one big constant bubble. took out the airlock and it hissed out gas for about a minute.

however mine had got to 1.030 and then later found out it had stuck there. currently trying to sort that out!!

[mysterio]

Sounds like you may have let it get a bit warm

[sam c]

no it was 20 c, 21 c at the most. thats the wierd thing about it.

[Brauntonbeer]

I don't think it was down to high temps, pitch at about 27c - other than that it was room temp in a devonshire summer..... so not much more than 18-20c. So i don't think high temps where route cause. Tasted the sample & it teasted ok apart from a yeasty hint. Figuring some secondry & condition will sort this.