jtworkman
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I'm brewing my first batch with my own kit (helped a friend in the past) and have a question about when to transfer to secondary. My Belgian Tripel started fermenting very shortly after transferring it to primary fermenter (like within 8 hours) and seems to have stopped after about another 24 hours or so of fermentation. I took OG reading when I topped it off with water after transferring to primary (1.085 -- right where it was supposed to be). That was Friday night. I took another hydrometer reading after about 36 or so hours of fermentation since the airlock had stopped bubbling and I had gotten a little needlessly worried (again, this is my first brew of my own). That reading was 1.030 on Sunday afternoon. Checked it again yesterday (Tuesday) and it was unchanged (1.030).
I was planning on transferring it to the secondary fermenter on Friday, but according to the kit the FG should be about 1.017-1.020. Should I hold off on transferring it to the secondary if the SG doesn't hit FG by Friday, one week after it started fermenting?
I was planning on transferring it to the secondary fermenter on Friday, but according to the kit the FG should be about 1.017-1.020. Should I hold off on transferring it to the secondary if the SG doesn't hit FG by Friday, one week after it started fermenting?