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5 gallons. Midwest Supplies' Irish red. (So extract). Says to ferment in the bucket for two weeks if doing single fermentation.

To quote my friend "it smells like beer not wort"

Would it hurt to crack it open and check for krausen?

Bucket. I haven't seen it since we finished the boil, chilled, and pitched. I guess that was Saturday so almost a week. It's at a buddy's house (my roommates aren't fond of the smell post-boil so tend to do it over there) and he's yet to see bubbles. Just the water levels going up and down...

It's been maybe four days at this point. Didn't use sanitized water (though it had just been boiled quite a bit immediately before so should have been sanitary prior to going in the sanitized lock). Definitely had pressure changes in the atmosphere as we are experiencing a blizzard so that could...

I'm not seeing any bubbles, but each side of the S with water in them have gone up or down so it seems like pressure has changed at least. Is that normal?