The wheat beer I boiled up with a ton of nice spray malt extract and a tin of wheat beer syrup has finally started fermenting noticeably, after about 20 hours of sitting and doing nothing in the primary fermenter. Whew, is all I can say. I was worried that one was going nowhere!
It’s true, what they say: don’t freak out if it doesn’t do anything right away. It’s not necessarily a bad sign.
Tomorrow or Friday, I’ll be boiling up a pumpkin barley wine. After that, I’ll need more malt extract but that’s the least of my problems — I only have one glass carboy and the wheat will need a secondary fermentation, so even if I do chuck the pumpkin barley wine into my other bucket, I’ll need to find someplace to put it a week or less later. Thinking about a second glass carboy. Thinking I need a bigger space to work my brewy magic. Thinking about brewing is fun…