Over the week I brewed a batch of Sweet Sharon and another of Briton's Mist ... the mashing part went quite smoothly. But I did notice that in the batch of Brinton's that the yeast fermentation seems to shut down quicker than expected even to the point where the cap of the airlock was sitting level on the output of the airlock. I have never seen the airlock do that thus as insurance I pitched another batch of yeast into the wort.
After pitching the batch of yeast and waiting it still appeared nothing was happening ... thus I removed the airlock, covered the port and shook the carboy to aerate. This seems to work and hopefully the batch will turn out fine. I should note that this is a newly purchased carboy that is more translucent than my older one.
If should be also noted than even with both carboys in the same spot the newer one is a couple of degrees higher. So I covered the newer one to block any light that may be raising the temperature, speeding the yeast production, etc. I will know more after shifting to the secondary.
This is the initial site for the organic microbrewery I am setting up. It will go through all of the processes from successes to failures that go along with setting up a brewery first at home then to small scale production.
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