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« Last post by Sandyfeet on May 20, 2022, 07:11:57 PM »
Just an update as I am going to vacation to drink other people's beer.
I did add my honey at flameout. I had it in a mason jar on the simmer setting in a pan on the stove before adding it to the wort. I took one gravity reading from the middle of the kettle when I was draining it into my fermenter, and it appeared the sugars from the honey were not incorporated into that gravity reading.
As violently as this beer fermented, I have a feeling that most of my honey made it into the fermenter. I know that Belgian yeasts are violent, but without the honey, I would have been around 1.045OG.
This is going to be a true experiment, and I am looking forward to tasting it before I bottle.
I was initially worried as this beer didn't take off as fast as some of the others that I have brewed with the White Labs yeast, but at Day 2, it almost blew the cork off my fermenter, and I put tubing in place of the airlock knowing this yeast was crazy. I had a solid activity for about 3 days, then it settled down for less than one day before taking off again. After 6 days, it finally looks like it settled down for good. This is becoming an addictive hobby learning about all the crazy variables.