First batch

I am brewing my first batch of brew, I was curious to how long I should let it ferment for. It is an imperial blond ale. I started fermentation on Sunday, it's Thursday now and on day four. It stopped bubbling, but I'm nervous to open the lid, any advise?

Leave it alone for three weeks. All is going good.

Give it at least 10 days

I have a batch of Hef that's been in primary for three weeks and I haven't opened the lid. Sunday it's going into secondary on a huckleberry purée.

Relax and let it sit. Patience is a virtue.

If you have a hydrometer, it is done fermenting when you get 3 readings on separate days that are the same. If you don't have a hydrometer, 3 weeks is a good safe bet to make sure that fermentation is complete and the yeast have had a chance to clean up any nasties they might have made during fermentation. A bubbling airlock is not an accurate gauge of the level of your fermentation, just an indicator of the gas escaping through the airlock.

I'm doing my first brew also. I would let it sit for about 3 weeks. It should be fine. My airlock was bubbling for about the first 2 days and now is silent, but it is still fermenting.

Kevin

sirmichael said:

I have a batch of Hef that's been in primary for three weeks and I haven't opened the lid. Sunday it's going into secondary on a huckleberry purée.

Relax and let it sit. Patience is a virtue.

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I used to live in Montana and pick huckleberries out in the mountains... That sounds like one helluva brew and a damn fine use for them! Now I gotta get my hands on some out here in the desert so I can try that.

OClairBrew said:

I used to live in Montana and pick huckleberries out in the mountains... That sounds like one helluva brew and a damn fine use for them! Now I gotta get my hands on some out here in the desert so I can try that.

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I'm in Seattle and every year around Labor Day I head up to Stampede Pass in the Cascades and spend a day picking huckleberries. I always pick more than I know what to do with so I figured what better to do with them than make beer.

Thanks for all your help, it's the first batch so I need all the help I can get. I'll post on how it turns out!