frontiercdk
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I am new to brewing. I am on my sixth batch, which is Brewers Best American Light extract kit. This is the third time I have made it. I slightly modified the recipe. I used only half the bittering hops and added 1oz Brewers Best sweet orange peel the last 5 min of the boil. The original gravity was 1.044
Somewhere on the net I read an article that mentioned adding beano to your batch would lesson calories and give you a lighter final gravity. Cool, this batch is for my wife and both of those are positives in her eyes! So I gave it a try.
I gave it seven days in the primary (the air lock stopped after the 4th day). Then I took a gravity readying (1.004), done. I added 4 dissolved beano tablets and racked into my secondary. Less than eight hours later I had a frothy head about ¾ inch, the air lock was bubbling like crazy and fermentation roared back to life. Here are my concerns:
It is the 9th day in the secondary (16th day overall) and the air lock still
bubbles every 50 seconds.
The brew is getting darker, it is definitely brown now.
Should I wait till the airlock stops before kegging?
What the heck is happening?
Anyone else try this?
ANY insight would be appreciated
Somewhere on the net I read an article that mentioned adding beano to your batch would lesson calories and give you a lighter final gravity. Cool, this batch is for my wife and both of those are positives in her eyes! So I gave it a try.
I gave it seven days in the primary (the air lock stopped after the 4th day). Then I took a gravity readying (1.004), done. I added 4 dissolved beano tablets and racked into my secondary. Less than eight hours later I had a frothy head about ¾ inch, the air lock was bubbling like crazy and fermentation roared back to life. Here are my concerns:
It is the 9th day in the secondary (16th day overall) and the air lock still
bubbles every 50 seconds.
The brew is getting darker, it is definitely brown now.
Should I wait till the airlock stops before kegging?
What the heck is happening?
Anyone else try this?
ANY insight would be appreciated