Secondary Bubbling

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The beer should be done fermenting before you rack to secondary. A lot of us don't secondary anymore,unless adding fruit,oaking,or the like. And don't use the airlock as a fermentation guage. It's just a pressure relief valve. Use your hydrometer to know when it's at a stable FG.
 
The beer should be done fermenting before you rack to secondary. A lot of us don't secondary anymore,unless adding fruit,oaking,or the like. And don't use the airlock as a fermentation guage. It's just a pressure relief valve. Use your hydrometer to know when it's at a stable FG.

Thanks. I didn't mean when will the airlock start bubbling, but when should I see little bubbles coming up the side of the carboy
 
About all you should see in secondary is some little settling,& maybe dissolved co2 off gasing. And that won't last too long.
 
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