beerman315
Active Member
I'm brewing an IPA (extract & specialty grain kit), and after one week in my primary bucket, I racked into a glass carboy for secondary. I thought most of the fermentation was over, since the airlock more or less stopped bubbling and the gravity dropped from 1.060 to 1.018.
I'm dry hopping for the first time, so I just dropped the kit's package of hop pellets on top of the beer.
As expected, I saw nothing really going on in the carboy except for the pellets spreading out over the surface and slowly sinking.
Then after about a week, I noticed bubbles floating up from the bottom and about 1/2" of yeast cake. Also, it looks like there's a hop crust on the surface, maybe held up by the CO2 bubbles. The airlock is bubbling again, about one a minute.
I figured I'd wait a week and it's still going on, though slowing down. The crust is still there though... So it seems like maybe I racked a little too soon. I've heard of secondary fermentation appearing active from the disturbance, but not after a whole week!
Before I open it up to take a hydrometer reading, has anyone seen this before? Will that hop layer ever sink?
I'm dry hopping for the first time, so I just dropped the kit's package of hop pellets on top of the beer.
As expected, I saw nothing really going on in the carboy except for the pellets spreading out over the surface and slowly sinking.
Then after about a week, I noticed bubbles floating up from the bottom and about 1/2" of yeast cake. Also, it looks like there's a hop crust on the surface, maybe held up by the CO2 bubbles. The airlock is bubbling again, about one a minute.
I figured I'd wait a week and it's still going on, though slowing down. The crust is still there though... So it seems like maybe I racked a little too soon. I've heard of secondary fermentation appearing active from the disturbance, but not after a whole week!
Before I open it up to take a hydrometer reading, has anyone seen this before? Will that hop layer ever sink?