The morning after

Brothers and sisters, what has the night wrought?

NADA.

But, the Lllllllord works in mysterious ways....

I diluted the wash down to below 1.100 SG, and realized the pH was too low.. neutralized it a bit with bicarbonate of soda, down to around 4.5.

I also put the electric heater setting to "medium" since the temp was below 25C in the fermenter.

5 minutes later.. BUBBLES.

Lots of bubbles

I was concerned that it might just be latent air coming out so I rehydrated another packet of EC-1118 and put it in.

Plenty of bubbles.

I am going to let it bubble for a few hours before I cap it off.. I don't know how much the yeast worked over the night with the kind of stress on it that it had, but 3 hours from now, I'm going to cap it off.. and we'll be off and running.

And, appropriately, the US will have a new President, which will happen during my first wash.

Appropriate.

Pax Vobiscum.