Krausen Holding On - Page 2

HeavierFrag · 05-06-2007, 02:10 AM

Hey all ----

14 days after pitching....
Gravity has been the same for 8 days....
Krausen finally fell during the day. So ...
No worries.

HeavierFrag · 06-18-2007, 05:53 PM

Final update from my brew.

Primary 2 weeks (13 days before krausen fell)
Secondary 1 week.
Bottled / Conditioned 4 weeks.
This brew ended up fine. Nothing abnormal in taste or odor.

I guess it was just one of those things.

**Bobby_M** · 06-18-2007, 06:40 PM

I've got a belgian WIT that's been in primary for 2 weeks and krausen is holding strong. It's like a big fat pancake and not budging. I'll finally take a hydro and just rack the dang thing if it's good to go.

**BierMuncher** · 06-18-2007, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobby_M

I've got a belgian WIT that's been in primary for 2 weeks and krausen is holding strong. It's like a big fat pancake and not budging. I'll finally take a hydro and just rack the dang thing if it's good to go.

I've had them so thick you could walk on them.

I've racked after 8-10 days with static gravity readings and good results.

Reidman · 06-24-2007, 03:28 AM

Wow, I was actually going to make another thread about this until I did a search and realized this is pretty common. In my case the krausen has only been there 4 days but it's completely different from my last batch where the krausen fell after day 2 so I was a little concerned this time.

One question though. Assuming this doesn't fall and my ferment finishes up, would there be any problem pitching on this yeast cake with all that krausen on top..? Also, has anybody repitched on US-05..? I know it's cheap and I do have another pack but it would be convenient to just leave it in and reuse. Any experience/advice or constructive criticism welcome...