As some of you may have seen in another thread, I have a Northern brewer Double IPA kit that has been a strange one form day one.
It called for dry hopping onto 1oz of cascade. Despite sitting for two weeks in the primary with the gravity stalled at 1.020, it still had some krausen foam on the top when I racked. I racked it onto the cascade pellets. As normal, it got a nice hop layer on the top. About tthree days later, the hops settled out but now it has what appears to be a foamy krausen layer. No bubbles in the airlock though. I give the carboy a gentle rock and it falls out and looks just like yeast as it falls out. A few hours later...its back. It has been like this for nearly ten days. I pop the airlock and take a wiff...smells fantastic.
Anyone ever hae a secondary krausen like this? Will it ever fall? Should I rack to the bottling bucket and bottle? Should I rack it to another carboy and leave the gunk behind?
Any help here?
-Todd
It called for dry hopping onto 1oz of cascade. Despite sitting for two weeks in the primary with the gravity stalled at 1.020, it still had some krausen foam on the top when I racked. I racked it onto the cascade pellets. As normal, it got a nice hop layer on the top. About tthree days later, the hops settled out but now it has what appears to be a foamy krausen layer. No bubbles in the airlock though. I give the carboy a gentle rock and it falls out and looks just like yeast as it falls out. A few hours later...its back. It has been like this for nearly ten days. I pop the airlock and take a wiff...smells fantastic.
Anyone ever hae a secondary krausen like this? Will it ever fall? Should I rack to the bottling bucket and bottle? Should I rack it to another carboy and leave the gunk behind?
Any help here?
-Todd