Re: “still nothing going on in Dad’s Beer Bucket except for one drowned gnat.” from the April 11 post on my previous batch. Well this time, there are two drowned gnats, and I have a better camera, so you can actually see them.
See those two little specks? Those are the gnats. Really. Look closer. Here’s a closeup.
Yep. Gonzo. Ick.
You can bet that the gnats were not drawn to their demise by the Happy Bubbles, because there were no Happy Bubbles. I still have not figured out where all that CO2 went, because the fermentation went fine. The beer tastes OK (for green beer), and the specific gravity came out 1.010, which means that the fermentation went to completion.
Also, there is a ton of yeast in the bottom of the bucket. I poured the yeast into a 1 quart half-and-half container to see how much of it there is.
Here is the vial of yeast that I started with.
The vial contained 35 milliliters of yeast when I started. That is 1.183491ounces. Here is how much yeast was left in the bucket.
That is almost a quart of yeast. So we went from 1.183491ounces to about 30 ounces, which is a multiplier of 25.3487352249. Happy yeast. Good fermentation. No CO2. Puzzlement.
OK. That is my yukkie post of the month. I will try to clean it up next time.
The bottom line is that the beer is in the secondary fermentation vessel. I will bottle it next weekend.