Evan!
Well-Known Member
So it's Wednesday. On Saturday, my fiancee is going to Richmond for the day to do a final wedding dress fitting. I don't need to go. In other words, it's brew day.
Here's my problem:
Currently, my empty fermenting vessels are: a small (5.5 gal?) bucket and a small (5.5 gal?) glass carboy available, plus a big (6-6.5 gal?) glass carboy.
I currently have a Porter finishing up primary in a big carboy, and a barleywine finishing up primary in a big bucket.
I want to brew two batches on saturday; however, as of this morning (Wednesday), the Porter in the big carboy still has a 1" krausen on top, and bubbles through the airlock every once in awhile. As such, I'm not terribly confident that the yeast will have flocculated and fallen by saturday, so I'm not sure if I'll have 2 big carboys. I brewed the Porter + barleywine last friday, so I SHOULD be able to rack to secondary on Friday, but I don't want to rush it and rack before flocculation.
On that note, I DO still have a couple of free small vessels, as I mentioned above. I've never done primary fermentation of a 5-gallon batch in a small carboy---is this a good idea?
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to proceed if I still have krausen as of friday night/saturday morning? Help please!!!
Here's my problem:
Currently, my empty fermenting vessels are: a small (5.5 gal?) bucket and a small (5.5 gal?) glass carboy available, plus a big (6-6.5 gal?) glass carboy.
I currently have a Porter finishing up primary in a big carboy, and a barleywine finishing up primary in a big bucket.
I want to brew two batches on saturday; however, as of this morning (Wednesday), the Porter in the big carboy still has a 1" krausen on top, and bubbles through the airlock every once in awhile. As such, I'm not terribly confident that the yeast will have flocculated and fallen by saturday, so I'm not sure if I'll have 2 big carboys. I brewed the Porter + barleywine last friday, so I SHOULD be able to rack to secondary on Friday, but I don't want to rush it and rack before flocculation.
On that note, I DO still have a couple of free small vessels, as I mentioned above. I've never done primary fermentation of a 5-gallon batch in a small carboy---is this a good idea?
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to proceed if I still have krausen as of friday night/saturday morning? Help please!!!