I brewed the extract Baltic Porter kit from NB 10/8 and pitched Saflager S-23 dry yeast, my first lager. OG was 1.075 and fermentation temperature was ~58 degrees. I brewed this kit at my parents house and went back to school one hour away so I was limited to videos and pictures of the fermentation from my sister. There was a small neat krausen last week and is now gone. I checked the gravity (today) 10/20 and was 1.026.
Does anybody have experience with this kit or yeast? I’ll check the gravity in another 2 weeks and hopefully it will look alot better.
58 degrees is on the cold side for yeast. Lagers can take their time. Measure at least 3 days between each significant gravity reading to check for FG. If it is still going, it’s going to be slow. Some LME is only 55% ferment-able. I hope that’s not the case here.
I brewed this on Oct. 1st. with Wyeast 2124. I added 1 lb, dark brown sugar at the end of the boil.
aerated to snot out of it and and fermented it at 52F for 5-6 days, brought it up to 60 for the rest of fermentation. Diacetyl rest at 70ish for 3 days and threw it on the floor of the cellar for 3 weeks 50ish F and bottled. I’m still waiting for it to fully carbonate but I’m SO excited for it. It’s in IMO the perfect winter beer.
Yeah its a Lager its going to take longer then 2 weeks to ferment im sure. Like you said I would wait another couple of weeks then check it again. Let us know how it goes.
